About the Author
Brian Kellett is a high school history and government teacher at Algonquin Regional High School in Northborough, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Saint Anselm College, where he earned a Bachelors degree in History and Framingham State University, where he earned an Masters in Education. He began teaching in 2007. This website was created as a final project for Understanding Lincoln, a graduate level course presented jointly by Dickinson College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History