| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Young Lincoln: The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1816–1830. Prod. by Todd Gould. WFYI and the Indiana Historical Society, 2005. 27 mins. (American Public Television, 55 Summer St., Boston, MA 02110-1007; 617-338- 4455; < info@aptonline.org >; < http://www.aptonline.org > [Sept. 12, 2005])

With the world apparently endlessly fascinated by Abraham Lincoln, the Indiana Historical Society and WFYI-TV have produced a short movie on the fourteen years he resided in the Hoosier state. The film follows the familiar argument put forward by the historian Louis A. Warren, author of Lincoln's Youth: Indiana Years, Seven to Twenty-one, 1816–1830 (1959), that Lincoln's years in Indiana were important to his future development and should not be forgotten. While living near Little Pigeon Creek in Spencer County, he learned morality, history, and the fundamentals of the Founding Fathers, and he became conscious of the possibilities available in the wider world. As a boy, Lincoln read Mason Weems's biography of George Washington, a biography of Benjamin Franklin, and a history of the United States and thus acquired a grounding in the principles of the American republic. Tragedy, too, shaped his character. The death of his natural mother in 1818 to milk sickness, the descent into madness of a childhood friend in 1824, and his sister's death in childbirth in 1828 gave Lincoln his lifelong tendency to melancholia and his penchant for sorrowful reflections on the finality of death. Lincoln also traveled to New Orleans by flatboat in 1828, taking a load of produce to market for James Gentry, where he purportedly witnessed the horrors of the institution of slavery. When Lincoln migrated with his family to Illinois in 1830, Indiana had left an important mark on him.

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