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COUNTING DOWN THE
TOP 10
HUBBLE IMAGES
APRIL 2015
LOOKING FOR
HIS LEGACY
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APRIL 2015 • VOL. 227 • NO. 4
Images of the “Pillars
of Creation” are among
thousands the Hubble
Space Telescope has
captured. In this issue
lead Hubble imaging
scientist Zoltan Levay
picks his ten favorites.
PHOTO: NASA; ESA; HUBBLE
HERITAGE TEAM, STSCI/AURA.
COLORIZED COMPOSITE/MOSAIC
Are your favorite
Hubble photos in our
gallery of top shots?
Go to
ngm.com/more.
62
30
Hubble’s Greatest Hits
After 25 years on the job, the Hubble Space Telescope stands as “one of the world’s
most productive and popular scientific machines.”
By Timothy Ferris
Lincoln
Along the train route that his body traveled
home, people debate Lincoln’s legacy.
By Adam Goodheart
Photographs by Eugene Richards
76
How Coal Fuels
India’s Insurgency
Militants capitalize
on human poverty
amid mineral wealth.
By Anthony Loyd
Photographs by
Lynsey Addario
96
A Lincoln Gallery
Photos show the struggles of the nation
etched into the president’s face.
130
Proof
|
Argentine Identities
A photographer glimpses many cultures in
the faces of the country’s people.
Story and Photographs by Marco Vernaschi
The Bug That’s
Eating the Woods
A warming climate
is good for pine
beetles—which is
very bad for forests.
By Hillary Rosner
Photographs by
Peter Essick
116
Trajan’s Amazing
Column
On a pillar of Car-
rara marble, an
emperor’s exploits
tower over Rome.
By Andrew Curry
Photographs by
Kenneth Garrett
On the Cover
Alexander Gardner photographed Abraham Lincoln
on November 8, 1863, 11 days before the president delivered the
Gettysburg Address.
Photograph from Library of Congress
Corrections and Clarications
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O F F I C IA L J O U R NA L O F T H E NAT I O NA L G E O G R A P H I C S O C I E T Y
FROM THE EDITOR
Lincoln
The Longing for Lincoln
Doris Kearns Goodwin, the best-selling chronicler of America’s presidents,
knows the question historians would expect her to ask Abraham Lincoln if
she could. How would you have dealt with Reconstruction differently than
Andrew Johnson? the dutiful Goodwin would inquire. Lincoln’s death cut
short what probably would have been a gentler approach
to the South after the Civil War, she explains. If he’d lived,
“it might have helped ease the racial tension that’s lasted
for hundreds of years.”
But given the chance to actually sit down with our 16th
and, arguably, greatest president, Goodwin would ask
something very different. “I would just say to him, Tell me
a story,” she says. “The minute he started telling a story, his
eyes would light up, as if he had just come from black and
white into full color.”
April 14 marks the 150th anniversary of Lincoln’s
assassination. Like Goodwin, many of us seek that essen-
tial Lincoln. We want to understand how a boy who knew
so much privation and loss became a man of resilience,
condence, and humility, whose spirit still helps dene
the nation he loved and saved.
This is the story that writer Adam Goodheart and pho-
tographer Eugene Richards set out to tell as they retraced
the path of Lincoln’s funeral train over 1,654 miles, from
Washington, D.C., to its nal stop in Springeld, Illinois.
Perhaps a million people led past the president’s open
coffin; millions more lined the tracks. It was an outpouring
of shared grief after a war that killed as many as 850,000
American soldiers.
What was this longing for Lincoln, and why does
it endure?
On one level, says Goodwin, it’s obvious. “He won the
war, saved the Union, ended slavery. That legacy is a
permanent legacy to our nation and an advance of social
justice.” But she also thinks that Lincoln’s life story itself
touches emotions in a singularly powerful way.
She quotes from Ernest Hemingway’s
Farewell to Arms:
“The world
breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
“This is true of Lincoln,” Goodwin says. “He had a sustaining spirit.”
This portrait of a
contemplative
Lincoln was made
on August 9, 1863, in
a Washington, D.C.,
photo studio.
Susan Goldberg,
Editor in Chief
PHOTO: ALEXANDER GARDNER; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

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