Mary Todd Lincoln

Mary Todd Lincoln played a huge role in getting the United States where it is today. As the wife of Abraham Lincoln, she made a huge impact on his decisions to run for President and what he did during his presidency. She was a strong opinionated woman who had mental illnesses. Mary Todd Lincoln was mentally unstable because of her childhood, her losses, and her temper. Mary was born on December 13, 1818 in Lexington, KY. Her parents, Robert and Eliza Todd, had six children, Mary was the third. The Todd family was well known around Kentucky because they had a decent amount of money. This built Mary’s confidence knowing people are jealous of her family. “It shaped her sense of confidence and bravado”(Frost). Although, when she was six years…

Who was Mary Todd Lincoln? She was the wife of the 16th President, Abe Lincoln. Mary’s family was very wealthy. Mary is known for redecorating the White House and being the first Lady during the Civil War. Mary Todd Lincoln was born into a wealthy family in Lexington, Kentucky. She was born December 13, 1818, being the third child of Robert and Eliza Todd (Hull pg. 11). Mary’s family had 3 female slaves, five children all together, and Mary’s mother died giving birth to her fifth child (Hull…

Mary Todd Lincoln was born as just Mary Todd on December 13, 1818. Mary was born into a large, prominent family in Lexington, Kentucky, a town that her family had helped found. Mary had a pretty good upbringing compared to the standard for her time. She grew up wealthy, as a result of her Father, Robert Todd’s astounding career as a merchant and politician. Despite Mary’s picture perfect life, she had to deal with tragedy at a very young age. At just six years old, Mary’s mother passed away, but…

as day breaks” (O’Reilly, Dugard 12), the authors are referring to an actual dream that Lincoln had seemingly predicting his own death, a well-documented phenomenon. And when the Confederate armies hold on Richmond, Virginia crumbles, the president says, “It seems to me that I have been dreaming this horrid dream for four years, and now the nightmare is gone” (25). The thirty-six star flag of “postwar America” was referred to as “the flag of Abraham Lincoln’s dreams” (39), and the narrator…

Rathbone is such a unique homage to the ones who shared in President Lincoln last moments alive. It shows how this horrific event not only shook American citizens to their core, but also haunted those close to the Lincoln family for a much longer than the usual mourning period. To the Rathbone couple, who had personal relationship ties with the family, the tragedy slowly seeped into every aspect of their lives until it completely over took their mind. The tragedy of Lincoln along with the more…

Mary Todd Lincoln, President Abraham Lincoln’s wife, would often write letters to the President who was located in Washington D.C. at the time. He was a busy man, of course, dealing his role in the government. During a time in 1862, Mary wrote him about many different things, which included topics that were both political and personal. This letter written to him in November of 1862 offers insight to not only their relationship as husband and wife, but as the President and the First Lady. As a…

Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln I am doing my research paper on the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. I am going to tell you a little bit why and how the President was assassinated was it because of his goodness or was it because he tried to abolish slavery. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by a man named “John Wilkes Booth”. Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the United States and the president had a wife and one son their names are Mary Todd Lincoln and Robert Lincoln.…

This is a paper about two amazing comic book characters. Jason Todd and Bucky Barnes are often considered so similar that they might as well be the same character. Jason Todd is a DC character created in March 1983 as a sidekick for Batman to replace his first prodigy, Dick Grayson. Bucky Barnes is a Marvel character created in March 1941 as a sidekick for Captain America. The two boys share several critical personality traits, but overall are very different. In Life James Buchannan “Bucky”…

We’ve all seen friends and families who have been in a controlling relationship and we all have tried to say something to them about or at least tried to help them leave the relationship or try to help them seek out advice to fix the relationship? “Breathing Underwater” tells a story of boy who controls his girlfriend in many different ways and even hits her. Controlling relationships deal damage on both people involved with it and sometimes the friends and families caught in the crossfire of…

Until he took a boy named Dick Grayson under his wing when his parents were brutally murdered. He did this because the boy reminded Bruce of himself when he was little. (Bruce’s parents had been murdered too) The boy had soon found out Bruce wasn't who he said he was, and found out he was Batman. So Bruce trained the boy to become his sidekick naming him after a brave and full of hope bird. (Robin) Robin soon quit his job saying he was sick of Batman being too bossy and called Bruce a, “Control…