http://www.richardwfox.com/nostalgia daily 0.75 2015-01-19 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5333515fe4b04ad11a1618eb/t/54bd2485e4b0bc3a597673a9/1421681798182/boyhood Nostalgia http://www.richardwfox.com/first-final daily 0.75 2015-01-19 http://www.richardwfox.com/oscar daily 0.75 2015-01-19 http://www.richardwfox.com/grieving daily 0.75 2015-01-19 http://www.richardwfox.com/beardstown daily 0.75 2015-01-19 http://www.richardwfox.com/phrase daily 0.75 2015-01-19 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5333515fe4b04ad11a1618eb/t/54bd161ce4b0bb2b01b20af8/1421678110305/ A Phrase for the Ages In Philadelphia engraver Max Rosenthal’s deathbed scene, Lincoln does belong to the angels, yet these angels serve the republican cause of George Washington, first father of the nation. Credit: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Allen County Public Library and Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites http://www.richardwfox.com/document02 daily 0.75 2015-01-19 http://www.richardwfox.com/welcome daily 1.0 2020-07-27 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5333515fe4b04ad11a1618eb/t/54beb555e4b053c373f4acac/1421784406199/ Lincoln's Body http://www.richardwfox.com/new-find daily 0.75 2015-01-19 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5333515fe4b04ad11a1618eb/t/54bd13a1e4b0276f663f2412/1421677473896/ New Find 2012 In this deathbed depiction, Philadelphia lithographer John L. Magee gives priority to the seated Andrew Johnson and to the kneeling Rev. Phineas Gurley, who intones the prayer (or prayers) he delivered right after the president’s last breath. The actual Johnson was not present in the Petersen house when Lincoln expired. Credit: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Allen County Public Library and Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites http://www.richardwfox.com/essay-contest daily 0.75 2015-01-19 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5333515fe4b04ad11a1618eb/t/54bd1c75e4b054d282425477/1421679736103/ Essay Contest Anna Kliatshco, the nine-year-old Times contestant, and the eleven-year-old violinist. Credit: Courtesy Julie Stern http://www.richardwfox.com/document03 daily 0.75 2015-12-16 http://www.richardwfox.com/document05 daily 0.75 2015-12-16 http://www.richardwfox.com/fox-essays daily 0.75 2015-01-19 http://www.richardwfox.com/documents daily 0.75 2020-07-27 http://www.richardwfox.com/lincoln-images daily 0.75 2015-02-18 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5333515fe4b04ad11a1618eb/54d3cf98e4b03d9ab66c1655/54d3cfbce4b042d80b64da21/1424112402003/52+presidential+footrace+with+Douglas+3a17091u.jpg Lincoln Images - Untitled presidential footrace (J. Sage and Sons, 1860) During the race, Lincoln carries his maul, used for driving the wedge while splitting rails. The finished rails make a fence that “can’t stop” him, since he “built it.” The fence will stop Stephen Douglas, however, for he can’t surmount the problem of slavery, represented by the African American man or boy, which blocks his path. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2008661608/ https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5333515fe4b04ad11a1618eb/54d3cf98e4b03d9ab66c1655/54d3cfbbe4b042d80b64da01/1424807114225/56+Puck+1901+lumberjack+AL+25510u.jpg Lincoln Images - In Re Sampson v. Morgan (Puck Magazine, 1901) Thirty-five years after Lincoln's death, Puck’s cartoonist creates a super-hero’s body for the sixteenth president, drawing perhaps on the oral tradition of Paul Bunyan. And the ax is his natural counterpart. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2010651391/ https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5333515fe4b04ad11a1618eb/54d3cf98e4b03d9ab66c1655/54d3cfb0e4b042d80b64d9b0/1424112812400/68+Out+of+the+Scrape+1861.jpg Lincoln Images - I am glad, I am out of the scrape (Carl Anton, 1861) Raising his rail, Lincoln easily parries the secessionist’s thrust, while pusillanimous ex-president James Buchanan flees from “the scrape.” http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2008661627/ https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5333515fe4b04ad11a1618eb/54d3cf98e4b03d9ab66c1655/54d3cf9de4b042d80b64d906/1424112520210/94+AL+with+ax+not+rail+C+%26+I+1862+or+1863.jpg Lincoln Images - Breaking that “backbone” (Currier and Ives, 1862 or 1863) To shatter “the stiffest back-bone ever grown,” that of the monstrous Rebellion, Lincoln lies in wait with his ultimate weapon: the sturdy ax of the Emancipation Proclamation. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003674578/ https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5333515fe4b04ad11a1618eb/54d3cf98e4b03d9ab66c1655/54d3cfb1e4b042d80b64d9b2/1424112455476/66+Schoolmaster+Abroad+1861.jpg Lincoln Images - Strong’s Dime Caricatures No. 4 [Schoolmaster Abroad] (John H. Goater, 1861) Lincoln’s legs, and his Uncle Sam-style trousers, take center stage in this anti-secessionist cartoon. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2008661619/ https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5333515fe4b04ad11a1618eb/54d3cf98e4b03d9ab66c1655/54d3cf9ce4b042d80b64d8fe/1424112674086/76+railsplitter+%26+AJ+repairing+Union.jpg Lincoln Images - The “Rail-splitter” at work repairing the Union (Joseph E. Baker, 1865) By 1865, the lithographic Lincoln can devote his rail to the task of reunion, using it here as a lever to steady the globe on which his vice-president is perched as he tries to stitch the Union together. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2008661827/ https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5333515fe4b04ad11a1618eb/54d3cf98e4b03d9ab66c1655/54d3cfd6e4b042d80b64dac6/1424112054216/28+Letting+Cat+Out+of+Bag+C+%26+I+1860.jpg Lincoln Images - Letting the cat out of the bag!! (Currier and Ives, 1860) Lincoln uses this rail defensively against the mangy and aggressive “spirit of discord.” http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003674589/ https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5333515fe4b04ad11a1618eb/54d3cf98e4b03d9ab66c1655/54d3cf9de4b042d80b64d903/1424112209771/91+Uncle+Sam+AL+as+soldier.jpg Lincoln Images - Uncle Sam protecting his property against the encroachments of his cousin John [Bull] (Edward Stauch, 1861) Uncle Sam resembles a young bearded Lincoln, who promises to make John Bull pay for cozying up to the Confederates. Note the African American faces concealed in the cotton. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2008661636/ https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5333515fe4b04ad11a1618eb/54d3cf98e4b03d9ab66c1655/54d3cf9ee4b03d9ab66c166a/1424112144286/95+AL+on+guard+C+%26+I+1860.jpg Lincoln Images - Storming the castle: “Old Abe” on guard (Currier and Ives, 1860) Lincoln the watchman defends the White House against other presidential candidates, including the frightened Stephen Douglas, who complains that Lincoln is “after me with a sharp stick.” http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003674583/ https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5333515fe4b04ad11a1618eb/54d3cf98e4b03d9ab66c1655/54e238ffe4b00f1b031ca24b/1424111955201/73+AL+rail+as+baseball+bat+1860.jpg Lincoln Images - The National Game: three “outs” and one “run” (Currier and Ives, 1860) Lincoln’s “good bat” has prevailed against his three competitors in the presidential race, all of whom are “out” as he “runs” successfully to “home base.” http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003674584/ https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5333515fe4b04ad11a1618eb/54d3cf98e4b03d9ab66c1655/54d3cfdce4b03d9ab66c1821/1424111659961/29+Great+Exhibition+of+1860+C+%26+I.jpg Lincoln Images - The Great Exhibition of 1860 (Currier and Ives, 1860) Turning the rail into a hobby horse, the image chastises Lincoln for doing the bidding of the abolitionists. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003674593/ https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5333515fe4b04ad11a1618eb/54d3cf98e4b03d9ab66c1655/54d3cfd3e4b042d80b64daa9/1424112977098/27+Political+Gymnasium+C+%26+I+1860.jpg Lincoln Images - The Political Gymnasium (Currier and Ives, 1860) Having received a boost from Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune, Lincoln has successfully mounted the rail marked “[Nomination] For President.” http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003674595/ https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5333515fe4b04ad11a1618eb/54d3cf98e4b03d9ab66c1655/54d3cfbde4b03d9ab66c1709/1424110830913/57+The+Rail+Candidate+C+%26+I+1860+3a12815u.jpg Lincoln Images - The Rail Candidate (Currier and Ives, 1860) Lincoln winces as he sits astride a rail-- a pose accentuating his politically delicate position. He is a dedicated opponent of slavery extension, and an unsurpassed orator on the moral evil of slavery (see the passage of his 1857 “Dred Scott” speech on “the prison-house” of slavery). But he disparages the “immediate” abolitionism embraced by many within the Republican Party. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2001703953// https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5333515fe4b04ad11a1618eb/54d3cf98e4b03d9ab66c1655/54d3cfbbe4b042d80b64da05/1424109193123/51+L+cartoon+1860+my+poor+lank+face.jpg Lincoln Images - Honest Abe on the stump (unknown lithographer, 1860) This flip-flopping Lincoln utters a self-deprecating remark in 1858 about his presidential chances and his looks (“my poor lean lank face”; see Lincoln’s Body, p. 9), but by 1860, satisfied with his appearance, he has settled into self-promotion. 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