Today, February 12, is the birthday of our 16th president whose Civil War order, the Emancipation Proclamation, freed the slaves from the Confederate states. In his theatlantic.com article, “Lincoln’s Great Depression,” writer Joshua Wolf Shenk proposes that the tall, frail statesman from Illinois experienced at least three stages of depression or “melancholy” as it wasContinue reading “The Depressed President”
