Two articles on Lincoln

If you have not visited the Atlantic magazine’s website, you might want to take a look at the free archive of articles published after November 1995. I have not had a chance to look through everything, but I wanted to point out two articles that could be used as a way to start a discussion in class about Abraham Lincoln. Garry Wills discusses President Lincoln’s Second Inaugural address in “Lincoln’s Greatest Speech?” (Sept. 1999) while Joshua Wolf Shenk, in “Lincoln’s Great Depression” (Oct. 2005), describes Lincoln in a way that may surprise some students.  Shenk also discusses his conclusions about Lincoln in an interview.