Lincoln's Melancholy
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Lincoln as using, [>]
End of History and the Last Man, The (Fukuyama), [>]
English Calvinists, [>]
Enlightenment
and masculine realm, [>]
in optimistic view on self-help, [>]
Episodic depression, [>]
Equality of opportunity, Lincoln’s endorsement of, [>]
Erie Canal, [>]
Ethnic stereotypes, in Lincoln’s humor, [>]
Euclid, Lincoln’s study of, [>]
Evans, W. A., [>]
Everett, Edward, [>], [>]
Evolution
Lamarck’s theory of, [>]
Lincoln as proponent of, [>]
Evolutionary psychology, on depression, [>]–[>]
Experimental psychology, [>]
Extrinsic motivation, [>]
Faculty psychology, [>]
Failure, as identity, [>]–[>]
“Failure, The” (on Lincoln’s setbacks), [>]
Farmington (Speed family plantation), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Fatalism, Lincoln’s belief in, [>]–[>], [>]
and moral order, [>]
Faulkner, William, [>]
Fechner, Gustav, [>]
Federal Writers’ Project, and Studs Terkel, [>]
Ficklin, O. B., [>], [>]
Fillmore, Millard, [>]
Fisher, Rhoda, [>], [>]
Fisher, Seymour, [>], [>]
Ford, Gerald, [>]
Ford, John, [>]
Ford’s Theatre, [>]
Forgie, George, [>]
Fort Sumter, [>]
Fox, Gustavus V., [>]
Francis of Assisi, Saint, intensity in life of, [>]
Frankl, Victor, [>], [>], [>]
Franklin, Benjamin, as freethinker, [>]
Fredericksburg, battle of, [>]
“Free labor” ideology, [>]
Freeport Doctrine, [>]
Freethinkers, [>]
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism (Jacoby), [>]
Free will, Lincoln-Herndon debate on, [>]
FrÉmont, John C., [>], [>],184
French Revolution, [>]
Freud, Sigmund, [>]–[>], [>]
and religion, [>]
Freudian psychoanalysis
forerunners of, [>]
and questions on Lincoln’s emotions, [>]
Fugitive Slave Law, [>]
Fukuyama, Francis, [>]
Fuller, Robert C., [>], [>]
Fulton, Robert, [>]
Gandhi, intensity in life of, [>]
Gender roles, and understanding of depression, [>], [>]
Gentry, Matthew, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Geometry, Lincoln’s study of, [>]
Gettysburg, battle of, [>], [>]
Gettysburg Address, [>]–[>], [>]
Ghaemi, S. Nassir, [>], [>]
Gillespie, Joseph, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Globe Tavern, [>], [>]
Gloom
early-nineteenth-century view of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
See also Melancholy
Gold rush in California, [>]
Gourley, James, [>]
Graham, Mentor, [>], [>]
Graham, Sylvester, [>]
Grahamism, [>]
Grant, Ulysse S., [>], [>], [>], [>]
Gray, Thomas, [>]
Great Britain, struggle over slavery in, [>]
“Great Emancipator” myth, [>]–[>]
Greeley, Horace, [>], [>], [>]
Green, Bowling, [>], [>]
Green, Cranston “Bud,” [>]
Green, Nancy, [>]
Greenberg, David, [>]
Greene, Lynn McNulty, [>]
Griffith, D. W., [>]
Grigsby, Nathaniel, [>]
Guelzo, Allen, [>], [>], [>]
Gurley, Phineas D., [>]
Haggard, Rosa, [>]
Haman (Book of Esther), in Lincoln’s analogy, [>]
Hamlin, Hannibal, [>], [>]
Hanks, Dennis, [>], [>], [>]
Hanks, John, [>]–[>], [>]
Happiness, as mental disorder, [>]–[>]
Hardin, John J., [>], [>]
Hard Shell Baptism, [>]
Harlan, James, [>]
Harley, David, [>]
Harpers Ferry raid, [>]
Harris, Gibson, [>]
Harrison, William Henry, [>], [>], [>]
Hart, Gary, [>]
Harvard College, Lincoln as possibly unknown to, [>]
Havens, Leston, [>]
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, [>]
Hay, John, [>], [>]
Hayden, C. B., [>]
Haynie, Isham N., [>]
Hearst, William Randolph, [>]
Hecht, Jennifer Michael, [>]
Helmholtz, Hermann, [>]
Henning, Fanny, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Henry, Dr. Anson, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Herndon, J. R., [>]
Herndon, William Henry, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
and Cogdal, [>]
at 1858 meeting of Republicans in Springfield, [>]
Greeley to, [>]
and Harris, [>]
and Herndon’s Lincoln, [>]–[>]
on Lincoln as hiding self, [>]
on Lincoln as mystery, [>]
“Lincoln Record” assembled by, [>]–[>], [>]
purchase of by Lamon, [>]
purchase of by Library of Congress, [>]
on Lincoln’s breakup with Mary Todd, [>], [>], [>]
on Lincoln’s double consciousness, [>]
on Lincoln’s fatalism, [>]
on Lincoln’s loss and awakened ambition (1855), [>]
on Lincoln’s melancholy, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>],125, [>]
on Lincoln’s perception of world, [>]
on Lincoln’s religious beliefs, [>]
Lincoln’s research assistance from, [>]
on Lincoln’s and wife’s ambition, [>]
and Mary Lincoln, [>]–[>]
Randall on, [>]–[>]
Young on, [>]
and oral history study, [>]
papers of made available, [>]
Randalls’ campaign against, [>]–[>], [>]
and psychobiography, [>]–[>]
and Randalls’ successors, [>]
and Shutes, [>]
Herndon’s Informants: Interviews, Letters, and Statements on Abraham Lincoln (Wilson and Davis, eds.), [>], [>]
Herndons Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life (Herndon and Weik), [>]–[>]
Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, [>]
Herrick, Sophie Bledsoe, [>]
Higby, L., [>]
Hill, John, [>], [>]
Hill, Samuel, [>]
Historians on Lincoln
changing interpretive frameworks of, [>]–[>]
and era of professionals, [>], [>]
and oral history scholarship, [>]–[>]
and psychobiography, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Historians on Lincoln’s melancholy [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
and Herndon, [>]–[>], [>], [>] (see also Herndon, William Henry)
and Randalls, [>]
Historiography on Lincoln
Herndon and “Lincoln Record,” [>]–[>], [>]
Herndon’s successors, [>]–[>]
oral history scholarship, [>]–[>]
psychobiographers, [>]–[>]
second generation (Progressive era), [>]–[>]
third generation (professional historians), [>]–[>]
Randalls, [>]–[>], [>]
History
in absence of complete facts, [>]
as best story, [>]
changing approaches to, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
evidence vs. interpretation in, [>]
mistakes in, [>]
and “what everybody knows,” [>]
Hodgenville, Kentucky, Lincoln’s birthplace near, [>]
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr., [>]
Homose
xuality, question of concerning Lincoln, [>]–[>], 254^35, [>] (n.225)
“Honest Abe,” [>]
Honors Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln (Wilson), [>], [>]
Hood, Thomas, [>]
Hopelessness, of depression, [>]
Howe, Julia Ward, [>]
Humor
of Lincoln, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
as youth, [>]
as therapy, [>]–[>], [>]–[>] (n.113)
Humoral theory, [>]
Hunter, David, [>]
Huxley, Aldous, [>]
Hypnotism, [>]
Hypochondriasis, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Hypomania, [>], [>] (n.22)
I, Ruth: Autobiography of a Marriage (Randall), [>]
Illinois
“black laws” of, [>]
cold winter in (1840–1841), [>]
insane asylum in, [>]–[>]
internal improvements program and financial collapse in, [>], [>]
See also New Salem, Illinois; Springfield, Illinois
Illinois Daily Journal, [>]
Illinois State Journal, [>], [>], [>]
Illinois State Register, [>], [>]
Independent of London, [>]
Individualism, [>]
in Lincoln’s rejection of religious dogma, [>]
Inner World of Abraham Lincoln, The (Burlingame), [>]
Insane asylums, [>]–[>]
Insanity, as risk of self-improvement, [>]–[>]
Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln, The (Tripp), [>]
Intrinsic motivation in religion, as psychologically beneficial, [>]
Jackson, Andrew, [>]
Jackson, James W., [>]
Jackson, Thomas “Stonewall,” [>]
Jacoby, Susan, [>]
James, William
on acting as if healthy, [>]
mood disorder of, [>]
on panic fear, [>]
and religion-psychology relation, [>]–[>]
on “ripe fruits of religion,” [>]
on spiritual experiences as lapse of will, [>]
Jamison, Kay Redfield, [>], [>]
Jarvis, Edward, [>]–[>]
Jefferson, Thomas, [>]
as freethinker, [>]
reading of, compared with Lincoln’s, [>]
and religious equality, [>]
Jesus, [>], [>]
Job, Book of, [>], [>]
Johnson (observer of Lincoln at state Republican convention), [>]
Johnston, John, [>]
Jokes. See Humor
Jones, John, [>]
Judd, Norman, [>]
Jung, Carl, [>]–[>]
Kansas-Nebraska Act, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Kant, Immanuel, [>]
Katz, Jonathan Ned, [>]
Keaton, Buster, [>]
Keckly, Elizabeth, [>], [>]
Kempf, Edward J., [>]
Kerr, Orpheus C., [>]
Knapp, Nathan, [>], [>]
Know-Nothings, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Knox, William, [>]
Kraepelin, Emil, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Kramer, Larry, [>]
Kramer, Peter, [>]
Kushner, Harold, [>]
Lamarck, Jean Baptiste, [>]
Lamon, Ward Hill, [>], [>]
“Last Leaf, The” (Holmes), [>]
Lawrence, Amos A., [>]
Lawrence (Kansas) Republican, [>]
Learned helplessness, [>], [>]. [>]
Learning to Be Human (Havens), [>]
Lecompton constitution, [>]
Lee, Robert E., [>], [>], [>]
Lemen, James, Jr., [>]
Leonardo da Vinci, Freud’s study of, [>]–[>]
Lewis, Meriwether, [>]
Liberia, [>]
Library of Congress
Herndon’s materials purchased by, [>]
Herndon-Weik Collection at, [>]
Lincoln papers in, [>], [>]
Life of Abraham Lincoln, The (Lamon), [>]
“Life force,” [>]
Life of Poetry, The (Rukeyser), [>]–[>]
Lincoln, Abraham
ambition of, [>], [>]–[>]
DeWitt Clinton as model for, [>]
Congress as goal, [>]–[>]
and desire to live, [>]
desire for Senate seat, [>], [>], [>]
and despair of significant accomplishment, [>], [>]–[>]
politics as central to, [>]–[>]
and psychobiography, [>]
and wife, [>]
birth of, [>]
and creativity, [>]
DNA of, [>] (n.22)
and dreams, [>], [>], [>]. [>]
early life of
emotional crises, [>] (see also Breakdowns of Lincoln due to melancholy)
family, [>]–[>]
financial distress, [>], [>], [>]
law career, [>], [>], [>]
in New Salem, [>], [>], [>], [>]
popularity, [>]–[>], [>]
and rail-splitting, [>], [>]
and revelation about power of wages, [>]
self-education, [>]–[>]
in Springfield, [>]–[>], [>]
stepmother of, [>]
and “The Failure,” [>]
fatalism of, [>]–[>], [>]
and moral order, [>]
glorification of, [>]–[>]
and historians
and changing interpretive frameworks, [>]–[>]
and era of professionals, [>], [>]
and introduction of new basic evidence (1940s and 1950s), [>]–[>]
and melancholy, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
and oral history scholarship, [>]–[>]
and psychobiography, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
humility and determined responsibility in life of, [>]–[>]
marriage and family of, [>], [>]–[>]
death of Eddie Lincoln, [>]
and Lincoln in Congress, [>]–[>]
See also Lincoln, Mary
as mystery (Herndon), [>]
opposite qualities combined in, [>], [>]–[>]
paradoxes in life of, [>]
pattern of suffering and response in life of, [>]
personal characteristics of
appearance, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
gloomy reserve replacing openness, [>]–[>]
humility, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
naturalness, [>]
physical strength, [>], [>], [>]. [>]
and reason vs. emotionalism, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
sense of calling, [>]
sense of rectitude and concern for reputation, [>], [>], [>]
sensitivity, [>], [>], [>], [>]
tastes in food, [>]
voice, [>]
personal relationships of
father (Thomas), [>], [>], [>], [>],115
Mary Owens, [>], [>], [>]
Ann Rutledge, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>] (see also Rutledge, Ann)
and search for marriage partner, [>]
Joshua Speed, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>] (see also Speed, Joshua)
Mary Todd (premarriage), [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]. [>] ( see also Todd, Mary)
photographs of, [>]
private-public integration of, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
and opposition to slavery, [>]
as psychobiography subject, [>]
and reason, [>]–[>]
and religion, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
and Book of Job, [>], [>]
compassion from, [>]
and family background, [>]–[>]
and gift of Bible, [>], [>]
and “I hope we are on the Lord’s side,” [>]
joke about, [>