historians’ downplaying of, [>]
letter following, [>], [>]
Randall on, [>], [>]–[>]
and Randall on Mary Todd, [>]
Mary Todd on, [>]
breakdown (before marriage to Mary Todd), [>]–[>]
as bringing Lincoln to life for author, [>]–[>]
and chronic depression, [>]
and contrast of self with slaves, [>]
and counsel to Speed, [>]
as depth of character, [>]
efforts to overcome, [>], [>], [>], [>]
and “blue spells,” [>]
and desire for accomplishment, [>]
humor and storytelling, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
medical treatment, [>], [>], [>]
medications, [>]–[>]
poetry, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
at 1860 Illinois Republican convention, [>]–[>]
as 1860 political asset, [>]–[>]
in Eli Lilly public service campaign, [>], [>]. [>]
empathy prompted by, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
in political life, [>]
as evident to Circassian, [>]
and family history, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
as family trait in Lincoln’s eyes, [>]
and family traumas, [>]–[>]
historians’ treatment of, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
and Herndon, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
(see also Herndon, William Henry)
and Randalls, [>]
as illness vs. choice, [>]
knowledge of limited, [>]
and lack of satisfaction over congressional victory, [>]–[>]
and letter to Fanny McCullough, [>]
and Lincoln’s life-functioning, [>]
and newly accessible material, [>]–[>]
paradoxical features of, [>]–[>]
and political vision, [>], [>], [>]
during presidency, [>]
psychological lessons from, [>]
and “reign of reason,” [>], [>]
revelation of to Wilson, [>]–[>]
and Ann Rutledge, [>]–[>], [>],107, [>]–[>]
and search for meaning, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
for second generation of Lincoln biographers, [>]
seen as established fact shortly after death, [>]
seen as proceeding from innate temperament, [>]
self-knowledge through, [>]
spells of gloomy brooding, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
Springfield neighbors’ remarks on, [>]–[>]
stoic and philosophical turn in, [>], [>]
Stuart on, [>]
supreme confidence alternating with, [>]
total insanity feared from, [>]
and transition from boyhood to manhood, [>], [>]–[>]
and work as major part of life, [>]
vs. youthful health, [>]
Melville, Herman
as fellow melancholic, [>]
as maudlin, [>]
Moby-Dick, [>]–[>]
Menand, Louis, [>]
Mencken, H. L., [>]
Mental illness
definition of, [>], [>]. [>]
and diagnosis, [>]
Drake on, [>]
increasing attention to, [>]
and Lincoln, [>] (see also Melancholy of Abraham Lincoln)
of Mary Jane Lincoln, [>], [>], [>]
of Mary Lincoln, [>], [>], [>], [>]
of Mordecai Lincoln, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
1919 attitude toward, [>]
and politics, [>]–[>]
“predisposition” to, [>]
Merck & Company, [>]
Mesmer, Franz Anton, [>]
Mesmerism, [>]–[>], [>]
Mexican-American War, [>], [>]
Migration of blacks, proposal for after end of slavery, [>]
“Milk sick,” [>], [>]
Mill, John Stuart, [>], [>], [>]
Miller, Richard Lawrence, [>]
Minor, Wilma Frances, [>]
Missouri Compromise, [>]–[>], [>]
Lincoln for, [>]
and Lincoln on question of slavery regulation in territories, [>]
repeal of, [>], [>], [>]
Moby-Dick (Melville), [>]
Mohammed, [>]
Monocategorical existence, of chronic depressives, [>]
Mood disorders, among artists, [>]
“Moral therapies,” [>]
Morse, Samuel, [>]
Morton, Oliver, [>]
Motivation, extrinsic vs. intrinsic, [>]
Müller, Johannes, [>]
Murphy, Patrick, [>]
My Confession (Tolstoy), [>]
Napoleon, [>]
Narrative, vs. case history, [>]–[>]
Nasby, Petroleum V., [>], [>]
National Archives, documents uncovered in, [>]
Natural selection
Darwin’s discovery of, [>]
and depression, [>]
Necessity
Doctrine of (Lincoln on), [>]–[>]
slavery tolerated from (Lincoln), [>]
Negative religious coping, [>]
Nervous system, discovery of as discrete system, [>]
Nervous temperament, Lincoln on, [>]
Newell, Robert H., [>]
New Granada (now Colombia), attempt to make Lincoln chargé d’affaires in, [>]
Newhall, Lois, [>]–[>], [>]
New Orleans, Lincoln visits, [>]
New Salem, Illinois
and Herndon’s research, [>]
Lincoln in, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
as humorist, [>]
opinion in on Rutledge and Lincoln, [>]
rebuilt as shrine, [>]
Springfield compared with, [>], [>]
New Year’s Eve, in Victorian America, [>]
New York Citizen, [>]
New York Herald, [>], [>]
New York Independent, [>]
New York Times, [>], [>], [>]
New York Tribune, [>]
New York World, [>]
Nicolay, John G., [>]
Nightingale, Florence, [>]
Nixon, Richard, [>], [>] (n.167)
Nixon’s Shadow (Greenberg), [>]
Noll, Mark, [>], [>]–[>]
Nott, Charles, [>]
Nuclear age, and “character issue,” [>] (n.167)
Oedipus complex, attributed to Lincoln, [>]
Oglesby, Richard, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
“Oh why should the spirit of mortal be proud!,” [>], [>]
Old School Calvinism, [>], [>]
“On the Distribution of Insanity in the United States” (Hayden), [>]
O’Neill, Eugene, [>]
On Suicide: Great Writers on the Ultimate Question, [>]
Opium, [>], [>]
Optimism
and American culture, [>]
of Stephen Douglas, [>]–[>]
and James on religion, [>]–[>]
Lincoln’s observation on, [>]
Oral histories
on Lincoln, [>]
and professional historians, [>], [>]
Oral History Association, [>]
Oregon Territory, Lincoln offered governorship of, [>]
Owens, Mary, [>], [>], [>]
Paine, Thomas, [>], [>]
Peace Democrats (Copperheads), [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
“Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions, The” (Lincoln), [>]
Pessimism, of Lincoln, [>]
Petersburg, Illinois, Ann Rutledge buried in, [>]
Photographs of Lincoln, [>]
Pinsker, Matthew, [>]
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, [>]
Placebo effect, [>]
Plato, Aristotle on, [>]–[>]
Poe, Edgar Allan, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Poetry
Abraham and Mary Lincoln’s shared love of, [>]
Emily Dickinson’s definition of, [>]
Lincoln’s love of, [>]–[>], [>]
Poetry of L
incoln, [>], [>]–[>]
following congressional nomination, [>]
on Matthew Gentry, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
and “The Suicide’s Soliloquy,” [>]–[>], [>]
as therapy, [>], [>]
written as child, [>]–[>]
Political career and attitudes of Abraham Lincoln, [>]
and antireligious views, [>]
and antislavery speeches, [>] (see also Slavery)
defiance and discipline in (1850s), [>]
and Douglas
debates with (1840), [>]
and Douglas as Republican, [>]
speeches against (1854), [>]
Lincoln-Douglas debates (1858), [>], [>]–[>]
and eloquence from conviction, [>]–[>]
and future as primary consideration, [>]
and internal-improvements/debt crisis, [>]–[>], [>]
and Know-Nothings, [>]–[>]
and “lost” speech of Bloomington, [>]
and loyalty of friends and colleagues, [>]
and Mexican-American War, [>]
modesty over presidential prospects, [>]–[>]
offices held and tried for
state legislature candidate, [>]
state legislature member, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
in Congress, [>], [>], [>], [>]. [>]
Senate seat fought for (1855), [>]–[>]
Senate contest lost (1858), [>], [>]–[>]
and 1860 Republican state convention, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
1860 presidential nomination and election, [>]–[>]
as orator, [>]
as rail-splitter, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]. [>]
as Republican, [>], [>], [>]
“retirement” from politics announced, [>]–[>]
and serenity of long view, [>]–[>]
six years out of office, [>]
strength and aggressiveness, [>]
and suppression of feelings for sake of Union, [>]–[>]
turned down for General Land Office job (1849), [>]
vision as foundation of, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
as repurification, [>]
in second inaugural, [>]–[>]
as subservient to larger cause, [>], [>], [>], [>]
and Whig party, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Politics, and mental illness, [>]–[>]
Polk, James K., [>]
Popular sovereignty, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Portable Lincoln, The (Delbanco ed.), [>]
Poyen, Charles, [>]
Presidential election (1848), [>]
Presidential election (1856), [>]–[>]
Presidential election (1860), [>]
and Lincoln on Freeport Doctrine, [>]
Lincoln’s initial prospects in, [>], [>]
and Republican state convention in Illinois, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Presidential election (1864), [>]–[>]
Proverbs, and humor as therapy, [>]
Providence
and Lincoln, [>]
See also Fatalism; Religion
Provine, Robert, [>]
Prozac, and Eli Lilly public service campaign, [>], [>] (n.240)
Psychoanalysis
forerunners of, [>]
and religion, [>]
and questions on Lincoln’s emotions, [>]
Psychobiography(ies), [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Psychology
categorization vs. understanding in, [>]
defenses (adaptations), [>]–[>]
faculties posited by, [>]
and private lives of public figures, [>]–[>]
psychoanalysis developed, [>]–[>]
spiritual vs. mechanistic explanation in, [>]
Psychotherapy, forerunners of, [>]
Puritans and Puritanism
on melancholy, [>]
Mencken on, [>]
Quincy (Illinois) Whig, [>]
Quorum-call episode, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Racial and ethnic stereotypes, in Lincoln’s humor, [>]
Racism, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]. [>]
Rail-splitter, Lincoln as, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]. [>]
Radden, Jennifer, [>]
Randall, James Garfield, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Randall, Ruth Painter, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
“Raven, The” (Poe), [>]
Ray, Isaac, [>]
Real, Terrence, [>]–[>]
Real American Dream, The (Delbanco), [>]
Reason, [>]
Lincoln’s allegiance to, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
vs. emotionalism, [>]
and study of geometry, [>]
as masculine realm, [>]
Reconstruction policy, [>]
Reform, rewards for beyond lifetime, [>]
Religion
evangelical optimism, [>]
and Founders’ tradition, [>]
and Lincoln, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
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, [>]
Mary Lincoln on, [>]
on “necessity,” [>]
and punishment for sin, [>]
and second inaugural, [>]–[>]
of Lincoln’s family, [>]–[>]
as response to suffering, [>]–[>]
Second Great Awakening, [>], [>]
Representative government, and Lincoln on American destiny, [>]–[>]
Republican party, [>]
as dominant in Illinois, [>]
Lincoln as draft possibility for, [>]
Lincoln helps build in Illinois, [>]
Lincoln as vice presidential possibility for (1856), [>]
Republican (Springfield, Mass.,) [>]
Richard II (Shakespeare), [>]
Rickard, Sarah, [>]
“Riding the circuit,” [>]
Rokeby (Scott), [>]
Romanticism, and feminine realm, [>]
Rosenberg, Charles, [>]
Rothman, David J., [>]
Rotundo, E. Anthony, [>], [>], [>]
Rukeyser, Muriel, [>]
Rush, Benjamin, [>]–[>], [>]
Rusling, James E., [>]
Rutherford, Mark, [>]
Rutledge, Ann (Anna Mayes), [>]–[>], [>]
Lincoln after death of, [>]
and Lincoln historians, [>]
and fake letters about, [>]
Herndon, [>], [>]–[>], [>],237
professional historians on, [>]
Randalls’ attack on “myth” of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
and Randalls’ successors, [>]–[>]
Sandburg on, [>]
Tarbell on, [>]
in views of 1920s and 1930s, [>]
Wilson on, [>]–[>]
and Eddie Lincoln’s death, [>]
and Mary Lincoln, [>], [>]–[>]
in views of Progressive era, [>]
Rutledge, Robert, [>], [>], [>]
Rutledge family, [>]–[>]
Sacks, Oliver, [>]
Salem witch trials, [>]
Sandage, Scott, [>]–[>]
Sandburg, Carl, [>
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