Like Jacqueline Kennedy, Mary Todd Lincoln was at her husband's side when an assassin struck. She never recovered from that fateful evening at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865. Mrs. Lincoln led a fascinating life before, during, and after her White House years. I am not an author or an historian; rather I am a former American history teacher who enjoys researching Mary Todd Lincoln's life. If you have a specific Mary Todd Lincoln question that you would like me to research for you, please e-mail me.
Please CLICK HERE for information on Mary's genealogy.
LINCOLN'S TABLE: A President's Culinary Journey from Cabin to Cosmopolitan (second edition) and Fashionable First Lady:
The Victorian Wardrobe of Mary Lincoln by Donna D. McCreary
Sources consulted in the creation of this research site include: Mary Todd Lincoln: President's Wife by LaVere Anderson, Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography by Jean H. Baker, The Women Lincoln Loved by William E. Barton, Mrs. Abraham Lincoln by W.A. Evans, Mary, Wife of Lincoln by Katherine Helm, The Insanity File: The Case of Mary Todd Lincoln by Mark E. Neely, Jr. and R. Gerald McMurtry, The Courtship of Mr. Lincoln by Ruth Painter Randall, I Mary: A Biography of the Girl Who Married Abraham Lincoln by Ruth Painter Randall, Lincoln's Sons by Ruth Painter Randall, Mary Lincoln: Biography of a Marriage by Ruth Painter Randall, The President's Wife: Mary Todd Lincoln by Ishbel Ross, Mary Lincoln's Dressmaker: Elizabeth Keckley's Remarkable Rise from Slave to White House Confidante by Becky Rutberg, Mary Lincoln: Wife and Widow by Carl Sandburg, The Trials of Mrs. Lincoln by Samuel A. Schreiner, Jr., Mary Todd Lincoln: Her Life and Letters by Justin G. Turner and Linda Levitt Turner, and Crowns of Thorns and Glory Mary Todd Lincoln and Varina Howell Davis: The Two First Ladies of the Civil War by Gerry Van der Heuvel.
