Looking at Abraham Lincoln: New Guide Available By Barbara Orbach Natanson Abraham Lincoln, Congressman-elect from Illinois (detail). Photo by Nicholas H. Shepherd, 1846 or 1847. https://ift.tt/2YxJD45 The month of August appears to have regularly been a busy time for Abraham Lincoln. He won a seat in the Assembly in August of 1834 at the age of 24 and was re-elected three times in the Illinois August elections. His son Robert Todd Lincoln was born on August 1, 1843. And in 1858 he embarked in August on the first of a series of seven three-hour debates with Stephen Douglas, his opponent in the campaign for the U.S. Senate. Given the variety of events, both personal and political, that marked Lincoln's August days, it seems a fitting time to consider the many aspects of his life and death that are conveyed in p...