Caitlin Todd

feedback. Mary Todd Lincoln wasn’t always a Lincoln, her maiden name was Mary Ann Todd otherwise known as “Molly”. She was born in Lexington, Kentucky in the date of December 13, 1818. Mary’s hometown: Lexington was surprisingly founded by her family. She was the daughter of Robert Smith Todd and Elizabeth Ann Todd. She had two brothers and two sisters. She was born into a wealthy family who didn’t have to suffer and gave her the basic resources she needed growing up (Mary Ann Lincoln (Todd), www.Geni

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. Mrs. Lincoln

portraying stoic, standup men. Elizabeth Keckley in her memoir Behind the Scenes gives us an inside look at President Lincoln and his wife Mary Todd Lincoln, as well as a look into her own life. Elizabeth Keckley was a black slave who bought her freedom, and worked for rich families as a seamstress, including working in the White House for Marry Todd Lincoln. She became close friends with Mrs. Lincoln and one of her only confidantes in the time after President Lincoln was

Emily Dickinson is an American poet born in Amherst Massachusetts December tenth, 1830. As a child Dickinson’s love for books was massive yet she did not start writing poetry until she was eighteen. However, she was not known of until after her death. Nonetheless, some people other than her family did now about Dickinson’s remarkable poems. Furthermore, most tried encouraging her to publish her poems yet others did the contrary. Emily Dickinson’s life is what caused her to write such great poetry

Haely Pratt J. Tristan PHIL 1106-002 Trial by Fire: Interpreting Evidence In late 1992, Cameron Todd Willingham was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death for a fire that claimed the lives of his three daughters the previous December. During the trial, the prosecution cited evidence from two arson investigators, Douglass Fogg and Manuel Vasquez, listing “more than ‘twenty indicators’ of arson,” along with testimony from medical experts and other witnesses. The trial lasted only two days

The main idea of the book was love. It was a love that lasted through all the hardships, controversies, and death. Mary Todd, a Kentuckian from a wealthy family with an interest in politics caught the eye of a young lawyer named Abraham Lincoln. Even during the war, where her family was confederates and they were dying, both Abraham and Mary knew that they were doing the right thing in preserving the Union. After Abraham Lincoln died, she blamed herself and became mental unstable and eventually died

Soon after, Travis County DA Rosemary Lehmberg contacted Harle to request an appointment. The judge—who was in the midst of a capital murder trial in his home district—elected to speak to her by phone instead, but he had a court reporter transcribe the exchange, which took place on September 16. During a hearing in Georgetown ten days later, he provided a sealed transcript of the conversation to Morrison, Raley, Jernigan, and Roberts and called a recess during which the attorneys could read it. The

Stephen Berry’s book House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, a Family Divided By War, Berry tells about the life of Abraham and his wife Mary Todd. In this book, he includes the influence that the Todd family had played on his personal life as well as his presidency. This book begins with Mary Todd’s grandfather and eventually he ends with Lincoln’s assassination. The main focus of the author is to give the reader a better understanding of the Todd clan, and also to understand what it was like to be

cold hard facts about Lincoln’s assassination as the most significant because it is something they were never aware of. One may say, “I never knew General Lee and General Grant met before the Civil War!” Another might state, “I didn’t know Robert Todd Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth loved the same girl!” However, personally, I believe that the most important truth is something far broader than specific facts. The truth: good will triumph over evil. Killing Lincoln is the story of how Booth killed

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? 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? From the deaths of her 14-month old brother and mother