Chapter 2: Lincoln as Storyteller

Intended for Grades 8 12, this lesson uses storytelling and primary source investigation to understand experiences and events that shaped Abraham Lincoln into a highly skilled, if unlikely, politician.

About David Herbert Donald, author of Lincoln

The Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of American Civilization Emeritus at Harvard University, David Herbert Donald is best known for his conscientious writing about the Civil War era, especially the monumental text Lincoln (1996), a classic in American history that is a strikingly original portrait of leadership and blazing political ambition. Probably the most challenging biographical subject in American history, this enthralling biography remained on The New York Times Bestseller List for 14 weeks. In 1961, Dr. Donald received his first Pulitzer Prize for Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War. Over 20 years later, infused with an important writing career, the prolific writer would win this prestigious award again for Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe in 1988.

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