HISTORY™, together with the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, will feature a National Teach-In on the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln on Thursday, February 12th, 2009, at 1:30pm EST. The teach-in will take place at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Educators and students nationwide can tune-in and view this LIVE webcast online at http://www.history.com/lincoln/ . Teachers, students, and families will find enrichment resources and study guides at this site, which may be used at any time and/or can help prepare for the event.

You can now register for this event online at http://www.history.com/lincoln/. The first 500 registrants will receive a National History Day sourcebook on Lincoln and a Lincoln coin box.

This special live event will feature three Lincoln scholars: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Team of Rivals author Doris Kearns Goodwin, Harold Holzer, who is Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission Co-Chairman, a noted Lincoln scholar, and author of the newly published Lincoln President-Elect, and historian Matthew Pinsker, who holds the Pohanka Chair in American Civil War History at Dickinson College and is author of the acclaimed book Lincoln's Sanctuary. These historians will share their expertise and answer students' questions from all over the country. The content is recommended for middle through high school, with a particular emphasis on 8th grade, and easily fits within all fifty states' standards of learning. Do your students have questions about Abe? Send them to us at Lincoln@aetn.com and tune-in to see if one of  them is picked to be answered during the live webcast! Historians will also answer many of these questions after the live event via email, and answers will be posted at http://www.history.com/lincoln/

Questions? Email us at lincoln@aetn.com.

Article from Cable in the Classroom and The History Classroom. Reprinted with permission.