History UsefulNotes / AbrahamLincoln

* An Abe Lincoln version of ''ComicBook/DarkwingDuck'' was featured as part of the [[AlternateSelf Darkwings]] [[MesACrowd of the]] {{Multiverse}}.

* In ''Film/CSATheConfederateStatesOfAmerica'', he [[AlternateHistory loses the Civil War]]. He attempts to flee to [[CanadaEh Canada]] with Harriet Tubman disguised as a black man, but is captured by Confederate forces. After a two year imprisonment, Jefferson Davis, hoping to ease tension in the newly conquered North, pardons him and exiles him to Canada, where he dies a lonely man in the early 1900s. All history remembers him for is being the man that lost "the War of Northern Agression".

* ''Series/{{Manhunt}}'' follows manhunt for UsefulNotes/JohnWilkesBooth following his assassination of Lincoln in the first episode.

It is also relevant, if somewhat uncomfortable to admit, that Lincoln was ''technically'' a ''racist'', even by today's standards. He casually used the n-word in conversation, and regularly attended and enjoyed {{minstrel shows}} (these facts wouldn't become more widely publicized until after the success of ''Film/{{Lincoln}}'' in 2012, which historians accused of presenting an overly narrow and sugarcoated view of the president). Though he was an abolitionist, he was willing at least in principle to allow slavery to continue, if only because it was constitutionally protected in established states, believing that it would end on its own if it could be kept from spreading. At one point in time, he supported the American Colonization Society program, which would have enabled the freed slaves to emigrate to UsefulNotes/{{Liberia}} and start new lives. He once remarked in 1837, while speaking of his "Free Soil" stance opposing both slavery and radical abolitionism: "The institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy, but the promulgation (legal enactment) of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils." Early in his presidency he said that he would back any solution to the slavery question that preserved the Union, whether it was freeing all the slaves, freeing none of them, or freeing some and leaving others enslaved, but by then he had already chosen option one, though border states had exemption initially. His anti-slavery views became stronger over time, however, eventually crystallizing in two famous quotes: "In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free," and "Whenever I hear anyone arguing over slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."

* ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'': The Klingon Chancellor Gorkon was written as a cross between Lincoln and UsefulNotes/MikhailGorbachev. Lincoln's portrait also appears in the Officers' Mess. [[note]] The name Gorkon is, according to WordOfGod, a portmanteau of Gorbachev and Lincoln. [[/note]]

* ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'': The Klingon Chancellor Gorkon was written as a cross between Lincoln and UsefulNotes/MikhailGorbachev. Lincoln's portrait also appears in the Officers' Mess.

** In [[Recap/RickAndMortyS3E10TheRickchurianMortydate The Rickchurian Mortydate]], it's revealed that [[HistoricalVillainUpdate Lincoln kept a slave colosseum]] underneath the White House, with President Curtis (a black man) bitterly noting that he ''didn't'' free them all.

* ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'': The Klingon Chancellor Gorkon was written as a cross between Lincoln and UsefulNotes/MikhailGorbachev, with Lincoln's portrait also in the Officers' Mess.

* Creator/GregoryPeck played Lincoln in the miniseries ''The Blue and the Grey''.

''[[{{WesternAnimation/Oversimplified}} You're about to get a roundhouse to the face]]''

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' meet Lincoln's ghost, who then helps them thwart a [[Literature/TheManchurianCandidate Manchurian Candidate-style]] assassination plot against the current president.

* Abraham Lincoln was summoned to take part in a duel to the death between good and bad factions in the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "The Savage Curtain". When he was beamed aboard the ''Enterprise'', he was given a welcome befitting a head of state. Played by Lee Bergere, he spoke in a pleasant low tenor or high baritone voice, avoiding the booming stereotype. Sadly, he was among the first to die.

* Lincoln appears briefly in two episodes of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' set during the UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, "Back There" and "The Passersby".

* On ''Series/LateNight with Conan O'Brien'', a common skit involved Conan checking out wacky (and obviously fake) channels from all around the world. One of the most memorable of these channels is the Abraham Lincoln Money Shot Channel, which is an entire channel devoted to, you guessed it, shots of Honest Abe, a-hem, finishing his business.
** It should be noted that Conan is a professed Lincoln fanboy and featured Abe in a number of sketches, including one where [[BigDamnHeroes he rode a zipline over the studio audience and knocked out John Wilkes Booth before he could shoot Lincoln]].

* The ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "Meltdown" features waxwork creations representing various famous people from history; one of these is Lincoln.
* In ''Series/BabylonFive'':

* In a skit on the SketchComedy ''Series/TheWhitestKidsUKnow'', Lincoln is presented as having been very loud and obnoxious at Ford's Theatre. When John Wilkes Boothe asks him to be quiet, Abe begins mercilessly taunting him. Boothe finally snaps, and [[strike: shoots Lincoln]] beats his ass with a hammer.

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In the ending of "Gettysburg", the Confederate Colonel Angus Devine accidentally gets transported to the year 2013 in the middle of a parade featuring the President. Angus sees a man dressed up like Lincoln and shoots him. As he is being taken down by the Secret Service, his gun discharges and hits the President.

* He is one of the historical figures who appears in Creator/DreamWorksAnimations' ''WesternAnimation/MrPeabodyAndSherman'' and one of the presidents who supports Mr. Peabody's right to raise a human child.

It is also relevant, if somewhat uncomfortable to admit, that Lincoln was by today's standards a ''racist''. He casually used the n-word in conversation, and regularly attended and enjoyed {{minstrel shows}} (these facts wouldn't become more widely publicized until after the success of ''Film/{{Lincoln}}'' in 2012, which historians accused of presenting an overly narrow and sugarcoated view of the president). Though he was an abolitionist, he was willing at least in principle to allow slavery to continue, if only because it was constitutionally protected in established states, believing that it would end on its own if it could be kept from spreading. At one point in time, he supported the American Colonization Society program, which would have enabled the freed slaves to emigrate to UsefulNotes/{{Liberia}} and start new lives. He once remarked in 1837, while speaking of his "Free Soil" stance opposing both slavery and radical abolitionism: "The institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy, but the promulgation (legal enactment) of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils." Early in his presidency he said that he would back any solution to the slavery question that preserved the Union, whether it was freeing all the slaves, freeing none of them, or freeing some and leaving others enslaved, but by then he had already chosen option one, though border states had exemption initially. His anti-slavery views became stronger over time, however, eventually crystallizing in two famous quotes: "In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free," and "Whenever I hear anyone arguing over slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."

** In "Lincoln Lover", Stan creates the eponymous play based on the relationship between Lincoln and his bodyguard Captain David Derikson. Missing the obvious homoerotic undertones of his own work (and that the sold out audiences consist entirely of gay men), Stan is shocked to discover the Log Cabin Republicans[[note]] a real life group that pushes for gay inclusion within the GOP[[/note]] believe Lincoln was gay and that they want Stan's help in getting accepted into the Republican National Convention.

* ''The Last Days of Lincoln'' by Mark Van Doren has Lincoln debating the future of the country with such figures as Charles Sumner and Benjamin Franklin Wade.

* ''The Last Days of Lincoln'' by Mark Van Doren has on Lincoln debating the future of the country with such figures as Charles Sumner and Benjamin Franklin Wade.

* One of Bob Newhart's early routines, "Abraham Lincoln vs. Madison Avenue", satirically juxtaposes the cynical marketing of modern political candidates with Lincoln's honesty.

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States between [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar 1861 and 1865]]. That guy who won the UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, proclaimed the slaves free, delivered the Gettysburg Address, and was [[BeamMeUpScotty born in a log cabin]] which he [[FolkHero built with his own two hands]] [old joke].