Abraham Lincoln -- Related Articles in The Atlantic A Passive President?, by James M. McPherson (1995) McPherson reviews historian David Herbert Donald's 1995 biography of Lincoln. Recollections of Lincoln, by Henry Villard (1904) A journalist who covered American politics at the time of Abraham Lincoln's presidential candidacy recalls his impressions of Lincoln and describes several occasions on which he encountered Lincoln face-to-face and became somewhat acquainted with him. New Light on Lincoln's Boyhood, by Arthur E. Morgan (1920) On a trip to the Ozarks, Morgan, a civil engineer, encountered a doctor whose mother was Lincoln's cousin and who grew up in the same house with Lincoln. After interviewing the doctor at length, Morgan relays anecdotes about Lincoln's early childhood. Lincoln, by John Vance Cheney (1909) A poetic tribute. Copyright © 1996 by The Atlantic Monthly Company. All rights reserved.