Thread for tracking the best/most "interesting" Lincoln commentary.

https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/who-do-we-think-we-are/articles/the-great-simplifier

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/lincolns-religion

The description doesn't indicate it, but this was one of the best recent pieces on Lincoln as a communicator and persuader.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/08/lincoln-project-does-not-understand-abraham-lincoln/

It was also one of the few sufficiently spirited defenses of his legacy and relevance as a political model.

Very insightful 1920 speech on Lincoln's political skill, given by Elihu Root, whose own biography is quite impressive.

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/lincoln-as-a-leader-of-men/

https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/national-unity-and-national-perpetuation

https://amgreatness.com/2021/05/01/americans-unite/

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jala/2629860.0001.104/--lincoln-theme-since-randalls-call-the-promises-and-perils?rgn=main;view=fulltext

IMO, this piece mixes some sharp, original, and useful analysis with some that is more dubious. The excerpts in this thread belong in the first category, and mostly speak for themselves.
https://www.fusionmagazine.org/well-what-would-lincoln-do/

Lincoln firmly believed loyalty should be rewarded. In practice, this prevented him from taking absolutist positions when it came to groups defined by anything other than loyalty. Service to the Union was more salient to him than almost anything else.