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Lincoln's Melancholy

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by Joshua Wolf Shenk


  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, [>

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