Abraham's dream! — "Coming events cast their shadows before", a Currier and Ives print portraying the President tormented by nightmares of defeat in the election of 1864.
Featured on PDR in the essay Lofty Only in Sound: Crossed Wires and Community in 19th-Century Dreams
Alicia Puglionesi explores a curious case of supposed dream telepathy at the end of the US Civil War, in which old ideas about the prophetic nature of dreaming collided with loss, longing, and new possibilities of communication at a distance.
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Abraham's Dream! — 'Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before'
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