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Mary Lincoln on, [>]
and “necessity,” [>]
and punishment for sin, [>]
and second inaugural, [>]–[>]
rhetorical skills of(revision of inaugural passage), [>]–[>]
and self-advancement, [>]–[>]
and fear of failure, [>], [>]
and fear of insanity, [>], [>]
sense of purpose of, [>]
and slavery, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>],161–[>] (see also under Slavery)
speechwriting style of, [>]
stages in life of, [>], [>]–[>]
first (early), [>], [>], [>],212–[>], [>]
second (middle), [>], [>], [>],156, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
third, [>], [>], [>]
on temperance, [>]–[>], [>]. [>].
Tolstoy on Circassian view of, [>]–[>]
Lincoln, Abraham, MELANCHOLY OF, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
and adaptation, [>], [>]
and appeals on behalf of mentally ill, [>]–[>]
benefits of, [>]
catalyst for purposeful activity, [>], [>]
clear vision, [>], [>], [>]
commitment strengthened, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Herndon’s attempts at showing, [>]
political resolve strengthened (secession crisis), [>]
in presidency, [>]
self-knowledge, [>]
and bipolar disorder, [>]
breakdown (first, 1835), [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
and Herndon’s research, [>]
historians’ dismissal of, [>], [>]
letter written after, [>]–[>], [>]
as reason’s desertion, [>], [>]
Sandburg on, [>]
breakdown (second, 1840–1841), [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
causes of, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
clarity and resolve as result of, [>], [>], [>]
convalescence from, [>]
and Drake, [>]–[>]
and “fatal first,” [>], [>],55–[>]
historians’ downplaying of, [>]
letter following, [>], [>]
Randall on, [>], [>]–[>]
and Randall on Mary Todd, [>]
Mary Todd on, [>]
breakdown (before marriage to Mary Todd), [>]–[>]
as bringing Lincoln to life for author, [>]–[>]
and chronic depression, [>]
and contrast of self with slaves, [>]
and counsel to Speed, [>]
as depth of character, [>]
efforts to overcome, [>], [>], [>], [>]
and “blue spells,” [>]
and desire for accomplishment, [>]
humor and storytelling, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
medical treatment, [>], [>], [>]
medications, [>]–[>]
poetry, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
at 1860 Illinois Republican convention, [>]–[>]
as 1860 political asset, [>]–[>]
in Eli Lilly public service campaign, [>], [>] (n.240)
empathy prompted by, [>], [>], [>]
in political life, [>]–[>], [>]
as evident to Circassian, [>]
and family history, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
as family trait in Lincoln’s eyes, [>]
and family traumas, [>]–[>]
historians’ treatment of, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
and Herndon, [>]–[>], [>], [>] (see also Herndon, William Henry)
and Randalls, [>]
as illness vs. choice, [>]
knowledge of limited, [>]
and lack of satisfaction over congressional victory, [>]–[>]
and letter to Fanny McCullough, [>]
and Lincoln’s life-functioning, [>]
and newly accessible material, [>]–[>]
paradoxical features of, [>]–[>]
and political vision, [>], [>], [>]
during presidency, [>]
psychological lessons from, [>]
and “reign of reason,” [>], [>]
revelation of to Wilson, [>]–[>]
and Ann Rutledge, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
and search for meaning, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
for second generation of Lincoln biographers, [>]
seen as established fact shortly after death, [>]
seen as proceeding from innate temperament, [>]
self-knowledge through, [>]
spells of gloomy brooding, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
Springfield neighbors’ remarks on, [>]–[>]
stoic and philosophical turn in, [>], [>]
Stuart on, [>]
supreme confidence alternating with, [>]
total insanity feared from, [>]
and transition from boyhood to manhood, [>], [>]–[>]
and work as major part of life, [>]
vs. youthful health, [>]
Lincoln, Abraham, POLITICAL CAREER AND ATTITUDES OF, [>]
and antireligious views, [>]
and antislavery speeches, [>] (see also Slavery)
defiance and discipline in (1850s), [>]
and Douglas
debates with (1840), [>]
and Douglas as Republican, [>]
speeches against (1854), [>]
Lincoln-Douglas debates (1858), [>], [>]–[>]
and eloquence from conviction, [>]–[>]
and future as primary consideration, [>]
and internal-improvements/debt crisis, [>]–[>], [>]
and Know-Nothings, [>]–[>]
and “lost” speech of Bloomington, [>]
and loyalty of friends and colleagues, [>]
and Mexican-American War, [>], [>]
modesty over presidential prospects, [>]–[>]
offices held and tried for
state legislature candidate, [>]
state legislature member, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
in Congress, [>], [>], [>], [>]. [>]
Senate seat fought for (1855), [>]–[>]
Senate contest lost (1858), [>], [>]–[>]
and 1860 Republican state convention, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
1860 presidential nomination and election, [>]–[>]
as orator, [>]
as rail-splitter, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]. [>]
as Republican, [>], [>], [>]
“retirement” from politics announced, [>]–[>]
and serenity of long view, [>]–[>]
six years out of office, [>]
strength and aggressiveness, [>]
and suppression of feelings for sake of Union, [>]–[>]
turned down for General Land Office job (1849), [>]
vision as foundation of, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
as repurification, [>]
in second inaugural, [>]–[>]
as subservient to larger cause, [>], [>], [>], [>]
and Whig party, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Lincoln, Abraham, AS PRESIDENT
apparent lack of qualifications, [>]
burdensome responsibilities of, [>]–[>]
and December 1862 message to Congress, [>]
despair over secession, [>]
1864 election, [>]–[>]
and Emancipation Proclamation, [>]–[>], [>]
emotional regression of, [>]–[>], [>]
and factions on slavery issue, [>]
fatalistic serenity arrived at (1863), [>]
final weeks after victory, [>]
Gettysburg Address, [>]–[>]
inauguration, [>]–[>]
last days of, [>]–[>]
and Mary Lincoln, [>]–[>]
and melancholy, [>]
resolve of, [>]
second inaugural, [>]–[>]
self-doubt, [>]–[>]
Senate Republicans opposed to, [>]
Lincoln, Edward Baker “Eddie” (son), [>], [>], [>]
Lincoln, Mary Jane (cousin’s
daughter), [>], [>], [>]
Lincoln, Mary (wife), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
condemnation of after Lincoln’s death, [>]–[>], [>]
and Gettysburg Address, [>]
and Herndon, [>]–[>], [>]
Randall on, [>]–[>]
Young on, [>]
and Lincoln in Congress, [>]–[>]
and Lincoln’s last day, [>], [>]
on Lincoln’s religious beliefs, [>], [>]
on Lincoln’s reticence, [>]
mood swings of, [>]
wedding of, [>]
See also Todd, Mary
Lincoln, Mordecai (uncle), [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
information on in Barton articles, [>]
Lincoln, Nancy (mother), [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Lincoln, Robert Todd “Bob” (son), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Lincoln, Sarah (sister), [>], [>]
Lincoln, Thomas (brother), [>]
Lincoln, Thomas (father), [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Lincoln, Thomas “Tad” (son), [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
Lincoln, William “Willie” (son), [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Lincoln: An Account of His Personal Life (Stevenson), [>]
Lincoln Association of the Mid-Atlantic, [>]
Lincoln Centennial Association, [>]
Lincoln-Douglas debates, [>], [>]–[>]
Lincoln Legal Papers, [>]
Lincoln Memorial, [>]
Lincoln Presenters, Association of, [>], [>]–[>]
Lincoln the President (Randall), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Lincoln: A Psycho-Biography (Clark), [>]
“Lincoln Record” of Herndon, [>]
and Herndons Informants, [>]
sale and publication of, [>]
and Library of Congress, [>], [>]
Lincolns Emotional Life (Shutes), [>]
Lincoln’s Herndon (Donald), [>]
Lincolns Quest for Union (Strozier), [>]–[>]
Locke, David, [>]–[>]
Logan, Stephen T., [>], [>]
“Loser,” as identity, [>]
“Lost” speech of Lincoln at Bloomington, [>]
Lovely, Berenice, [>]
Lowry, Beverly, [>]
Lowry, Thomas, [>]
Luther, Martin, [>], [>]
Macbeth (Shakespeare)
Lincoln’s liking for, [>]
and question of homosexuality, [>]
Major depressive disorder, [>], [>]
Major depressive episode, [>]
Manfred (Byron), [>]
“Maniac, The” (Lincoln), [>]
Manic depression (bipolar disorder), [>], [>]
and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, [>]
Mankoff, Robert, [>]
Man’s Search for Meaning (Frankl), [>]
Manual of the Materia Medica, [>]
Manual of Psychological Medicine, [>]
Marfan syndrome, [>], [>] (n.22)
Market revolution, [>]–[>]
and mental labor, [>]
and sectional differences, [>]
Marriage
changing nineteenth-century view of, [>]
emotional burden of, [>]
as irrevocable, [>]
rigorous expectations for husbands in, [>]–[>]
Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography (Baker), [>]
Mary Lincoln: Biography of a Marriage (Randall), [>], [>]
Masculinity
judgment and reason in, [>]
and melancholy, [>]–[>], [>]
Mason, Jackie, [>]
Masters, Edgar Lee, [>]
Matheny, James, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Mather, Cotton, [>]
Matteson, Joel, [>]
McClellan, George B., [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
McClure, Alexander, [>]
McCormack, Andrew, [>]
McCullough, James P., [>]
McCullough, Mary Frances “Fanny,” [>]
McCullough, William, [>]
McGill, Ralph, [>]
McGovern, George, [>]
McHenry, Henry, [>], [>]
McHugh, Paul R., [>]
McKusick, Victor A., [>]
McLoughlin, William G., [>]
McPherson, James M., [>], [>]
Meade, George, [>], [>]
Medical Inquiries and Observations upon the Diseases of the Mind (Rush), [>]
Medical treatment, new early-nineteenth-century systems of, [>]–[>]
Medical treatment for mental illness, [>]–[>]
and Lincoln, [>], [>], [>], [>]
and Lincoln’s advice to Speed, [>]
present-day stigma of, [>]
“Meditation on the Divine Will,” [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Melancholia, [>]
and depression, [>]
and fear, [>]
Freud’s model for origin of, [>]
and hypochondriasis, [>]
Melancholy
Christian view of, [>]
complexities of discounted, [>]
and creative achievement, [>], [>]
definitions of, [>]
elusive nature of, [>], [>]
Lincoln on causes of, [>]–[>], [>]
as misfortune not fault (Lincoln), [>]
nineteenth-century conception of, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
and spiritual conversion, [>]–[>]
Melancholy of Abraham Lincoln, [>], [>], [>], [>]
and adaptation, [>], [>]
and appeals on behalf of mentally ill, [>]–[>]
benefits of, [>]
catalyst for purposeful activity, [>], [>]
clear vision, [>], [>], [>]
commitment strengthened, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Herndon’s attempts at showing, [>]
political resolve strengthened (secession crisis), [>]
in presidency, [>]
self-knowledge, [>]
and bipolar disorder, [>]
breakdown (first, 1835), [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
and Herndon’s research, [>]
historians’ dismissal of, [>], [>]
letter written after, [>]–[>], [>]
as reason’s desertion, [>], [>]
Sandburg on, [>]
breakdown (second, 1840–1841), [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
causes of, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
clarity and resolve as result of, [>], [>], [>]
convalescence from, [>]
and Drake, [>]–[>]
and “fatal first,” [>], [>], [>]–[>]