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Haunted by Abraham Lincoln

By Robin Bates | Published: August 12, 2019

Tuesday I walked away from Springfield’s Abraham Lincoln Museum yesterday thoroughly depressed and had to spend some time figuring out why. I think it’s because, while Lincoln ultimately prevailed in an impossible situation, I don’t see any Lincolns today. Our current polarization, while not as severe as in slave times, often appears beyond the help […]

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Lincoln Transformed Depression thru Lit

By Robin Bates | Published: June 27, 2017

Melancholy threatened to paralyze Abraham Lincoln in his early years. Literature helped him give voice to his depression and taught him how to turn it into an asset.

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Mourning the Death of “Captain” Lincoln

By Robin Bates | Published: April 15, 2015

“Oh Captain! My Captain,” mourning the death of Lincoln 150 years ago today, was Whitman’s most popular poem.

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Lincoln’s Reliance on Literature

By Robin Bates | Published: November 23, 2012

Spielberg’s “Lincoln” captures the president’s extensive reliance on literature.

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The Favorite Books of American Presidents

By Robin Bates | Published: June 10, 2009

I’ve had fun discussing the reading of Sonia Sotomayor and Clarence Thomas over the last couple of days, and while I’ve come up dry on further posts about the Supreme Court and literature, it has given me the idea of periodically dipping into reading stories of other political figures. I’ll start a list here, beginning […]

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