Oshkosh Public Library

Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president, producer, Kurt Johns

eng

videorecording

Abraham Lincoln

DVD

761958254

producer, Kurt Johns

21

Getting to know the U.S. presidents

sixteenth president

Uses animation and period prints and photos to guide viewers through a child-friendly look at the life and times of Abraham Lincoln beginning with his hardscrabble beginnings on a frontier farm; following him through various jobs as as a flatboat pilot, a soldier, a surveyor, a postmaster, a general-store owner, and a self-taught lawyer; and ending with the story of how he became the sixteenth president of the United States and led the nation through a civil war that threatened to tear the Union in two

juvenile

animation

LincolnGetting to know Abraham Lincoln