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Abraham Lincoln

History Politics

Lincoln’s Great Depression

How Abraham Lincoln’s lifelong struggle with clinical depression was a key to his presidency.

Joshua Wolf Shenk The Atlantic Oct 2005 40min Permalink

How San Francisco Renamed Its Schools

An interview with Gabriela López, the head of the San Francisco Board of Education.

Isaac Chotiner New Yorker Feb 2021 Permalink

History

The Fight to Find John Wilkes Booth’s Diary in a Forgotten Subway Tunnel

Possible clues about Lincoln’s murder in the unlikeliest place.

Joe Kloc Newsweek Jun 2014 Permalink

Crime

Yrs. Truly, A Lincoln

On the grifter who made a living forging the signatures of American heroes.

John Kobler The New Yorker Feb 1956 50min Permalink

History

The Unsuccessful Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln

Learning of a plot against the life of the newly elected Lincoln, Alan Pinkerton decamps to Baltimore and infiltrates the conspiracy.

Daniel Stashower Smithsonian Jan 2013 Permalink

Crime History

The Man Who Shot the Man Who Shot Lincoln

The strange life of Boston Corbett, the soldier who killed John Wilkes Booth in 1865.

Ernest B. Ferguson The American Scholar Apr 2009 15min Permalink