Abe Lincoln Grows Up | Ideas for Reports and Papers
1. Sandburg mentions several games played at parties on the frontier, such as "Skip to My Lou." How were these games played? What kind of musical instruments might have been used? (A valuable source here might be Sandburg's own collection of folk songs, The New American Songbag. New York: Broadcast Music, 1950.)
2. One of the digressions from the main story of Abe Lincoln concerns the presidential campaign and administration of Andrew Jackson. How do these events resemble or differ from presentday campaigns and administrations?
3. The Mike Fink stories that were...
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