History , Commemoration , and Belief : Abraham Lincoln in American Memory , 1945 – 2001

Running head : CONCEPTUALIZATION AND TREATMENT 1 Depression Prevention , Conceptualization , and Treatment through Adlerian Psychotherapy

Numerous biographies and historical accounts describe Abraham Lincoln as a very somber, melancholy individual. Psychologists and historians postulate that Lincoln would have been diagnosed today with clinical depression. In the present study Lincoln’s history and symptoms are explained from the perspective of Adlerian therapy, which has been supported for the treatment of depression through pre...

To Say What the Law Is: Judicial Authority in a Political Context

"Webs of Significance": The Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project, New Technology, and the Democratization of History

Lincoln/Net (http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu), a product of the Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project at Northern Illinois University Libraries, represents a new type of historically oriented digital library resource. Like many other digital libraries, it contains a large amount of searchable primary source materials. Like a number of other historically oriented online resources, project s...

Did the Slaves Author the Thirteenth Amendment? An Essay in Redemptive History

The Tennessee Monument to the Women of the Confederacy: A Study in Conflicting Ideas of Public Commemoration and Collective Memory, 1895-1926

Behind this public attempt to honor the role of the women of the South in the Civil War lies a surprising series of controversies and ironies. A look at this debate will illustrate the processes and issues involved in the interactions between collective memory and public commemoration. What is being commemorated, how something is best remembered and whose version of collective memory will be us...