Letters from an American – February 11, 2026 – Heather Cox Richardson

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Letters from an American, February 11, 2026

By Heather Cox Richardson, Feb 11, 2026

On February 12, 1809, Nancy Hanks Lincoln gave birth to her second child, a son: Abraham.

Abraham Lincoln grew up to become the nation’s sixteenth president, leading the country from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865, a little over a month into his second term. He piloted the country through the Civil War, preserving the concept of American democracy. It was a system that had never been fully realized but that he still saw as “the last, best hope of earth” to prove that people could govern themselves.

“Four score and seven years ago,” he told an audience at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in November 1863, “our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

Lincoln dated the founding of the nation from the Declaration of Independence rather than the Constitution, the document enslavers preferred because of that document’s protection of property. In the Declaration, the Founders wrote that they held certain “truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed….”

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Although @lindasgoluppiart is coming up to one anniversary later this month, we have another anniversary today, at 16:45.

You're good if you knew what this was just from the thumbnail, without even reading the hashtags or video title.

You're very good if you can name some of the programmes.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=dbogllExwIM

#Channel4 #FourScore #PaulCoia #DavidDundas

#FunFact: a "score" is 20 years, so #Lincoln's "Four score and seven years ago" means 87 years ago.

From now on 2025, that puts us in 1938. I wonder if there are any parallels we can draw, lessons about #authoritarianism we can learn? 🤔

#FourScore #FuckNazis

https://post.news/@/lwv_wa/2yrlcmjiszdstsv8ngl4oyug2gh A post that needs to be read.

#VoteForDemocracy #FourScore

Some people wondered about the Four Score for the NES, which games it supported.
I found this article that should give more info.
https://theoldschoolgamevault.com/blog/articles/best-4-player-nes-four-score-games
I added the picture again for people who missed the original Toot 😉.

#ShareYourGames #Gaming #Nintendo #NES #FourScore