A Short Story : The Story Of Katherine Lincoln's Story

Mary Ann Todd Lincoln, wife of the sixteenth President of the United States, was born December 13, 1818, in Lexington, Kentucky to Robert and Eliza Parker Todd. She was raised in a wealthy, yet dysfunctional family. She was well educated as a child, but needed more attention while growing up.Mary had a lot of problems as a Southern woman during the Civil War. Many people disliked her and people often criticized her actions while she was in the White House. Her problems began early in her life. She had five brothers and sisters and was not given all of the attention she needed. This was difficult because she had a short temper and demanded a lot of

Mary Surratt was a part of Abraham Lincoln’s kidnapping plot. In Source one it states “Mary knew about the kidnaping part but not the plan to kill the Abraham Lincoln. Mary Surratt was guilty for trying to kidnap Abraham Lincoln. Source2 “Booth had originally wanted to kidnap the president.” Booth only wanted to kidnap Abraham Lincoln to give a little scare, but after a while he got the idea in his mind that he wanted to kill Abraham Lincoln. In Source 2 it states “But our cause being almost lost, something decisive must be done”. Booth had written in his diary on what he was planning on doing. “Abraham Lincoln’s secretary new, however chose to keep it a secret”. The secretary knew and didn’t tell anyone, not even Abraham Lincoln she could have helped him in not being shot.

“Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated. Our wrongs will be made right, and we will once more, taste the blessings of freedom” (Quoteland). One of her biggest and most important thing in America history will have to be slavery. She probably had many other thing in history of America. Clearly, then Mary Todd Lincoln had many great achievements in the history of America.

During the next few weeks Donny had been talking on the phone with this girl Miriam for hours upon hours. She had invited Her over for dinner but Donny said no, Cal let Miriam over for one for the “studying” sessions, They were both always with cal and it started to seem weird to daisy. She “This Miriam was an unappealing girl with blurry lipstick and masses of rough red hair. She wore a short, Bulky jacket that would not have been out of place on a motorcycle. During this trip to Cals she was silent, but coming back, she was more talkative. “What a neat guy and what house. All those kids hanging out, like a club. And the stern playing rock… gosh, he's not like a grown up at all! Married and divorced and everything, but you'd think he was our age.” Miriam had said.” This is the daisy has gotten to think it was all bad and weird for Donny, It had all gone down hill Cal wasn't helping and they were just partying and this girlfriend wasn't the best for him she has thought. She didn't know what to do she didn't think any of this was helping. She should have come out and mentioned it too him about her not loving this girl and not thinking she was the best influence to keep him on track and get his grades up. With them always at Cals partying nothing was getting better, The girl didn't seem like she was all this serious and Daisy knows

“The Real Lincoln written by Thomas J. Dilorenzo published in 2002 gives us details into the Lincoln presidency It shows how Lincoln wanted a more central government he was not a man for all people but for the north. It shows that Lincoln was not the reason for the split in the country but a sense of pride was to blame. He did not support equal rights in slave and white americans. He was for the “ American system” and the expansion of America. Lorenzo is a member of the faculty at Loyola University of Maryland where he teaches economics. Lorenzo also wrote several other books: Lincoln Unmasked, How Capitalism Saved America, Hamilton’s Curse, and Inflating War. He is not the biggest fan of Lincoln in The Real Lincoln; in this book he tends

One cannot say that Mary Todd Lincoln did not suffer great loss in her lifetime. From a young age, she became familiar with loss when she lost her mother at the age of six (Baker 2002). Some people looked at her as crazy and thought she should be locked up in a mental hospital like her son had done to her. If they took the time, though, to read through her great losses and look from her perspective, maybe they could realize that she was just a mourning daughter, sister, mother, and wife.

On April 14, 1865, an assassination had happened. John Wilkes Booth had killed President Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln's death affected many U.S citizens. People were filled with sorrow and were very sad. It was a mourning day the day after Lincoln passed. Two people that were affected was Elizabeth Keckley, Walt Whitman and the whole nation was affected.

An hour later, Eva was flagging down a yellow Volkswagen beetle driven by a hyper looking black dude with a close shaven head and a goatee. He was on his way back to the local university campus. The dude was very talkative and kept eying her, asking too many personal questions. He was going back to school after Spring break with his parents and his spoiled brat sister. She was all of ten years old old. Born when his mother was pushing fifty and he was already twelve years old. Up until that point, he had been the apple of his parents eye. Now, he was Juana's trouble making 22 year old

1) Prior to marrying Mary Todd, Lincoln’s original love was Ann Rutledge who passed away at the age of 22. Lincoln’s mother had died when he was just nine years old and later his sister Sara died in childbirth.

It was at around 4PM on the 26th of March, that the garage doors of the Richardson family’s Arlington household opened before the oncoming arrival of Chandler the Fair’s sedan. Driving into the empty garage, Chandler parked his car there. Getting out of the car, using a house key that was given to him personally by the Godmother herself, Chandler was able to go inside the house. Once inside, he went to the living room, because heard saw Harold and Margaret enter the room from the kitchen. Silently, he walked past the kitchen, and into the kitchen, where Margaret and Harold encountered

Abraham Lincoln is by far our most revered president in the history of the United States. He had a strong moral vision of where his country must go to preserve and enlarge the rights of all her people, but he was also a good man with a strong sense of character and a great discipline in the art of law; and he sought to continue the great and mighty legacy of the Constitution. He believed that the Founding Fathers had drawn up the Constitution without the mention of slavery because they felt that it would later die of a natural death. He would soon learn that that would not be the case.

Research Question: Considering the events of her life, would it be more realistic to consider that Mary Todd Lincoln went insane/ diagnosable to today’s standards of being bipolar, or was she just in a state of post traumatic stress?

Mary Todd Lincoln lived in the 19th century with her husband Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, and her four sons. She is a controversial figure in American history who experienced both triumph and unimaginable tragedy. Mary Lincoln had both admirers and critics. Mary Todd Lincoln overcame many challenges during her early life, the death of her children, and her life during the war. Her actions as first lady changed public view of the White House, and she gave more input to the president than previous first ladies. Her story is a compelling one, full of drama, tragedy, triumph and importance.

“ Well, I guess it’s time that I told you. You’re going to have a new baby sister!” announced Mrs.McKay.

Winston’s eyes flew open all he was completely encased in darkness. His hand groped around as he struggled for light. The room was dimly aglow, casting eerie shadows on the objects in the room. Including the figure laying perfectly still on the be next to him. “Julia Julia,” he hissed, speaking law so the telescreens microphone couldn’t pick it up. “Wake up” The woman rolled over and blearily opened her eyes. Winston gasped slightly and took his hands off her. “Katherine?” “husband?” she said with the nicest voice. “Who is Julia?” she said very angrily. “please stop thrashing.” Said Winston. “I would get a good sleep tonight tomorrow is our day.” said Katherine. Winston said “our day” he had no clue what she was talking