This book tells the story of Abraham Lincoln and looks at what was happening all around the world in his time. To help you find your way through the book, each chapter has been divided into seven sections. Each section describes a different part of the world and is headed by a color bar. As you look through a chapter, the color bars tell you chich areas you can read about in the text below. There is a time line, to give you an outline of world events in Abraham Lincoln's time, and also a map, which shows some of the most important places mentioned in this book.