Design your own 21st-Century Abe poster to show what Abe means in the modern world.
What if CNN had covered Lincoln’s funeral? Or The Onion had lampooned the Baltimore Address? Here’s your chance to pick up your pundit pen. You can write about a specific Lincoln document or event, or about larger themes in Lincoln’s life. You can be funny, serious, even irate—Lincoln can handle it, he’s dead.
Don’t know where to start? You can find questions to get the wheels turning by opening any clicking on the “what do you think” tab on each Lincoln document in the document viewer.
As of September 1, 2009, this site has been archived and is no longer accepting new submissions. But please enjoy the existing site content.
Don’t sit back and let other folks have all the fun-it’s time for you to find your own Abe. Try the Design Our Poster or Be a Pundit activities and save your creations right to your own computer.
This is a drawing I did in celebration of Lincoln's 200th birthday! I have nicknamed it 'sexy linco ...
As I read through the letters, the question that kept coming back to me was 'what else was he doing ...
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