{"id":135,"date":"2008-06-26T23:43:04","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T04:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=135"},"modified":"2010-06-06T19:27:40","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T00:27:40","slug":"two-articles-on-lincoln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2008\/06\/26\/two-articles-on-lincoln\/","title":{"rendered":"Two articles on Lincoln"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have not visited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/\">the Atlantic magazine\u2019s website<\/a>, you might want to take a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/issues\/backissues.htm\">free archive <\/a>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\u2019s Second Inaugural address in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/issues\/99sep\/9909lincoln.htm\">\u201cLincoln\u2019s Greatest Speech?\u201d<\/a> (Sept. 1999) while Joshua Wolf Shenk, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200510\/lincolns-clinical-depression\">\u201cLincoln\u2019s Great Depression\u201d <\/a>(Oct. 2005), describes Lincoln in a way that may surprise some students.\u00a0 Shenk also discusses his conclusions about Lincoln in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200509u\/interview-shenk\">an interview<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2008\/06\/hd_lincolna.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have not visited the Atlantic magazine\u2019s 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19th-century-1840-1880"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1644,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/1644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}