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Transform Your Classroom into Lincoln’s Cabinet Chamber!It is Christmas Day, 1861. The Civil War is eight months old and going badly for the Union. A rogue U.S. warship has just seized two Confederate diplomats from a British ship on the open sea. The Northern public is celebrating, but Great Britain is furious and mobilizing for war.Your students step into the shoes of President Abraham Lincoln and his top advisers. They face a brutal strategic bind: Hand the prisoners back and face national hu

The Decision at a GlanceIt is Christmas Eve, 1992. President George H.W. Bush has been defeated in the election and is just seven weeks away from leaving office. On his desk at Camp David sits a three-page grant of executive clemency that would pardon six men caught up in the Iran-Contra affair—the scandal that has shadowed the administration for six years.One name on the list changes everything: Caspar Weinberger, the former Secretary of Defense, who is scheduled to stand trial in twelve days.

The Decision at a GlanceIt is Christmas Day, 1861. A United States warship has seized two Confederate diplomats from a British ship on the open sea. The North is celebrating. Britain is furious and is moving toward war. The President must choose: hand the prisoners back and look weak to his own people, or keep them and risk a second war against the world’s strongest navy while the first war is going badly. There is no costless option.This evidence-based classroom simulation stops at the exact mo

Bring history to life with The Emancipation Decision, a high-stakes presidential simulation that challenges your high school students to step directly into Lincoln’s cabinet! Over 75 to 90 minutes, a student-led Abraham Lincoln must navigate intense, competing pressures from four iconic advisers regarding the timing and scope of the Emancipation Proclamation. But the real magic happens in Phase 3, where the teacher steps in to rigorously "stress-test" the president's decision, turning a classic