#The New Lincoln

[uwmspeccoll]

FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND EXPRESSION

FREEDOM OF WORSHIP

FREEDOM FROM WANT

FREEDOM FROM FEAR

Milestone Monday

We remember January 6 as the date for the congressional certification of the presidential election and the peaceful transfer of power in the United States, but it is also infamously remembered for the violent storming of the Capitol Building in 2021 to prevent that certification. It is also the date in 1941 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address, which would later inspire the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. The "essential human freedoms" articulated in Roosevelt's address are:

Freedom of speech and expression

Freedom of worship

Freedom from want

Freedom from fear

To commemorate the address, we present images from the propagandistic FDR, The New Lincoln: Foursquare for the Four Freedoms, published in New York by Picture Digest in 1942, and the famous 1943 paintings by Norman Rockwell that were inspired by the Four Freedoms, as reproduced in Norman Rockwell, Artist and Illustrator by Brooklyn Museum director Thomas S. Buechner, published in New York by H. N. Abrams in 1970. These paintings are considered as equally propagandistic, as they were intended to promote patriotism in a time of war.

While the Four Freedom seem like idealistic aspirations, the address was really a national security speech, breaking with the non-interventionist mood of the day. The Japanese would attack Pearl Harbor eleven months later, and the Four Freedoms would be referenced as justification for the U.S. engagement in WWII against the tide of aggression and totalitarianism.

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[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

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[keepin-it-on-the-d-l]

It’s Mr. Steal Your Kids

[macksartblock]

posting as if its a regular day lol anyway y'all better vote for Terry when he faces off against Paeden

[endrimer]

[oldnewyorklandia]

F.S. Lincoln. Under the Bayonne Bridge, circa 1930.

[n0anix]

enjoyed this podcast very much (he is ignoring all the angst)

anyways, doodles

[gameraboy2]

Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953)

[archiveofaffinities]

Alexander Calder, Le Guichet, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, New York, 1963

[rooolt]

I’ll never be over how they just dropped titanic baby Lincoln on us and simply moved on to never bring it up again. Mentally I am still there

[darling-stardust]

What can I say? Thanks so much for a great year, darlings !!

See you in 2025 🩷😘

[cerealforkart]

It's my annual redraw! Big year for me, season 2 ended, and with it the manga, but I've got lots of screenshots to make with your requests, so you can all still count on me to be making content for these teens in 2025!

Happy new year from Dungeons and Daddies the anime!

[torra-and-the-toons]

Another EEnE x KND thing I never finished, and probably never will.

Eddy would not mix well with the KND but that's what makes it funny.

[evilhorse]

This is new.

(Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #25)

[justamoment-x]

America

[oldnewyorklandia]

F.S. Lincoln. Bayonne Bridge, circa 1930.