Abraham Lincoln - February 12

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Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Today is Darwin Day, Hug Day, Lincoln’s Birthday, Freedom to Marry Day, NAACP Day, Plum Pudding Day, and Paul Bunyan Day.

Black History Month Resource of the Day: Marian Anderson

• "Marian Anderson Sings at the Lincoln Memorial" Newsreel Story 
• NHPBS VIDEO - Echoes from Marian Anderson’s Defiant Performance 
• NPR Morning Edition - Denied A Stage, She Sang For A Nation 
• NHPBS Video - American Experience - The Voice of Freedom: Chapter One 
• American Masters - Marian Anderson: The Whole World In Her Hands 

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Abraham Lincoln

ON THIS DATE

• 1909 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
• 1915 - The first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is laid.
• 1924 - George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue premieres in  New York.
• 1963 - Construction begins on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis
• 1999 - President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1663 - Puritan minister Cotton Mather
• 1809 - Naturalist Charles Darwin
• 1809 - 16th President Abraham Lincoln
• 1881 - Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova
• 1893 - General Omar Bradley
• 1917 - Baseball player Dom DiMaggio
• 1934 - Basketball player and coach Bill Russell
• 1938 - Author Judy Blume
• 1980 - Actor Christina Ricci

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra - George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue - LISTEN

THEME:  Abraham Lincoln

• Grades K-5 - National Endowment for the Humanities - EDSITEment - Lincoln's First Inaugural Address: We Must Not Be Enemies Lesson Plan - READ and DO
• Grades K-12 - Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum - Lesson Plans - READ and DO
• Grades 3-5 - National Park Service - The Life of Abraham Lincoln - READ and DO
  
• Grades 3-10 - Ford's Theatre - Teaching Lincoln's Assassination and Legacy Lesson Plans - READ and DO
• Grades 4-12 - Gilder Lehrman Abraham Lincoln Classroom Resources Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS - Abraham Lincoln - 60-Second Presidents (1:11) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Looking for Lincoln - Abraham Lincoln's Words (0:44) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Looking for Lincoln - Quoting Abraham Lincoln (1:09) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Looking for Lincoln - Abraham Lincoln, Attorney at Law (1:44) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-8 - National Endowment for the Humanities - EDSITEment - Picture Lincoln Lesson Plan -VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS - History Detectives - Abraham Lincoln: Man Versus Legend Lesson Plans - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - National Archives - Abraham Lincoln Takes a National Role Media Gallery - VIEW and READ
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia -Teaching with Primary Sources - Abraham Lincoln Speaks - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia -The Civil War - Abraham Lincoln: Political & Family Photographs - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - White House Lectures: Abraham Lincoln (57:37) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - National Endowment for the Humanities - EDSITEment - Abraham Lincoln on the American Union: “A Word Fitly Spoken” Unit - READ and DO
• Grades 9-12 - National Endowment for the Humanities - EDSITEment - The Emancipation Proclamation: Freedom's First Steps Lesson Plan - READ and DO

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