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Response to Serenade (July 7, 1863)

Posted on June 29, 2013 by Matthew Pinsker

Contributing Editors for this page include Emily Weiss Ranking #86 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “How long ago is it?—eighty odd years—since on the Fourth of July for the first time in the history…

Tagged with: Founders, Nationalism, Public, Revisions, Speech, Wartime, Younger Readers
Posted in Savior of the Union

Letter to George Meade (July 14, 1863)

Posted on June 29, 2013 by Matthew Pinsker

Contributing Editors for this page include Susan Segal Ranking #87 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “Again, my dear general, I do not believe you appreciate the magnitude of the misfortune involved in Lee’s escape.…

Tagged with: Anger, Letter, Military Affairs, Private, Wartime, Younger Readers
Posted in Father Abraham

Letter to Mary Lincoln (September 21, 1863)

Posted on June 29, 2013 by Matthew Pinsker

Ranking #89 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “The air is so clear and cool, and apparantly healthy, that I would be glad for you to come. Nothing very particular, but I would be glad…

Tagged with: Family, Female correspondent, Letter, Mary Todd Lincoln, Private, Telegram, Wartime, Younger Readers
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Letter to Union Delegation (June 9, 1864)

Posted on June 29, 2013 by Matthew Pinsker

Contributing Editors for this page include China Harvey and Rhonda Webb Ranking #90 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the…

Tagged with: Election of 1864, Humility, Humor, Letter, Partisanship, Public, Wartime, Younger Readers
Posted in Savior of the Union

Letter to Mary Owens (August 16, 1837)

Posted on June 29, 2013 by Matthew Pinsker

Ranking #91 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “I want in all cases to do right, and most particularly so, in all cases with women. I want, at this particular time, more than any thing…

Letter to Eliza Browning (April 1, 1838)

Posted on June 29, 2013 by Matthew Pinsker

Contributing Editors for this page include Brian Kellett and Jesse O’Neill Ranking #92 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “In a few days we had an interview, and although I had seen her before, she…

Tagged with: Anger, Antebellum, Female correspondent, Friendship, Humility, Humor, Letter, Private, Romance, Younger Readers
Posted in The Railsplitter

Letter to Alexander McClure (August 30, 1860)

Posted on June 29, 2013 by Matthew Pinsker

Ranking #97 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “When you say you are organizing every election district, do you mean to include the idea that you are ‘canvassing’ – ‘counting noses?’” On This Date HD…

Letter to Don Buell (January 13, 1862)

Posted on June 29, 2013 by Matthew Pinsker

Ranking #98 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “With this preliminary, I state my general idea of this war to be that we have the greater numbers, and the enemy has the greater facility of…

Tagged with: Advice, Letter, Management style, Military Affairs, Needs Close Reading, Private, Telegram, Wartime, Younger Readers
Posted in Father Abraham

Letter to Fanny McCullough (December 23, 1862)

Posted on June 29, 2013 by Matthew Pinsker

Contributing Editors for this page include Megan VanGorder Ranking #99 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “It is with deep grief that I learn of the death of your kind and brave Father; and, especially,…

Tagged with: Advice, Consolation, Female correspondent, Letter, Private, Wartime, Younger Readers
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Letter to John Stuart (January 23, 1841)

Posted on June 29, 2013 by Matthew Pinsker

Ranking #101 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face…

Tagged with: Antebellum, Friendship, Letter, Melancholy, Needs Close Reading, Newspapers, Partisanship, Private, Younger Readers
Posted in The Railsplitter

Fragment on Government (July 1, 1854)

Posted on June 29, 2013 by Matthew Pinsker

Ranking #103 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can…

Tagged with: Antebellum, Needs Close Reading, Notes, Populism, Private, Younger Readers
Posted in Honest Abe

Letter to James Hackett (August 17, 1863)

Posted on June 29, 2013 by Matthew Pinsker

Ranking #131 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “Some of Shakspeare’s plays I have never read; while others I have gone over perhaps as frequently as any unprofessional reader. Among the latter are Lear, Richard…

Tagged with: Education, Letter, Literary, Needs Close Reading, Private, Wartime, Younger Readers
Posted in Honest Abe

Endorsement (May 17, 1860)

Posted on June 29, 2013 by Matthew Pinsker

Ranking #142 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “I agree with Seward in his ‘Irrepressible Conflict,’ but I do not endorse his ‘Higher Law’ doctrine. Make no contracts that will bind me.” On This Date HD…

Tagged with: Antebellum, Election of 1860, Needs Close Reading, Notes, Partisanship, Private, Slavery, Younger Readers
Posted in Honest Abe

To Whom It May Concern (November 1, 1862)

Posted on June 29, 2013 by Matthew Pinsker

Ranking #143 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “Capt. Derrickson, with his company, has been, for some time keeping guard at my residence, now at the Soldiers Retreat. He, and his Company are very agreeable…

Tagged with: Friendship, Letter, Military Affairs, Needs Close Reading, Private, Wartime, Younger Readers
Posted in Father Abraham