NEW PODCASTS: CATHERINE CLINTON AND ANDREW DELBANCO

Our latest podcasts feature two Lincoln scholars. Andrew Delbanco examines the way that Americans have looked at Lincoln throughout history, and Catherine Clinton looks at how early tragedy helped prepare Lincoln for crises later in life.
Catherine Clinton: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/wp/?p=170
Andrew Delbanco: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/wp/?p=163

NEW FEATURED DOCUMENT In February 1778, Timothy Pickering Jr. received word from Massachusetts that his father was dying. An adjutant general in George Washington’s Continental Army, Pickering wrote his father this moving letter of farewell from his post in Yorktown, Virginia. To read his letter and more about the Pickering family, click here:

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/documents.html

LINCOLN RESOURCES The Institute has partnered with NBC News on an new initiative to teach American history through archival news footage and primary documents. To explore this resource, go to: http://www.iCue.comand search for Lincoln!

For the Institute’s Lincoln page, visit: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/institute/lincoln.html