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Despite her suitability for life as Mrs Lincoln, Mary endured much tragedy and faced controversy in her public life. Who was the real Mary Todd Lincoln? Born on December 13, 1818, Mary Ann Todd ...
The "spiritualist" movement was certainly beginning to spread by the time Mary Todd married Abraham Lincoln, but all evidence shows Mary spent most of her married life as a Presbyterian.
Historians have long been fascinated with the behavior of Mary Todd ... early 20th century, when the show took place, and was among the most common reasons for people to be hospitalized. In ...
Mary Todd was Lincoln’s first and only wife, but he was romantically involved with other women and even engaged before he met her. The two most notable women from Lincoln’s early life were ...
Kentuckians know the Bluegrass State is the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, but the Commonwealth was also home to his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln. In fact, her family lived in a Georgian abode in ...
In 1987, Jean Baker, a historian at Maryland's Goucher College published Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography, portraying the Lincoln marriage as fundamentally tolerant and loving, and Mary as a vital ...