With the help of his teacher, a young boy realizes that he not only shares his birthday and similar physical appearance with Abraham Lincoln, but that he is like him in other ways as well.
Chronicles the events leading to the January 1, 1863, Emancipation Proclamation signed by Abraham Lincoln that declared all the slaves in Confederate states free.
Abigail and her friends travel to the past on an urgent mission when their time-traveling teacher returns from the mid-nineteenth century to report that President Abraham Lincoln is thinking about quitting, leaving the issue of slavery unresolved.
On the eve of the 1860 presidential election, as war clouds gather and the South threatens to secede, eleven-year-old Grace decides to help Abraham Lincoln get elected by writing and advising him to grow a beard.