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• DECEMBER BIRTHDAYS FOR LINCOLN FRIENDS & FOES

  
  A Little Touch of History — Authority: 109
  Here are some December birthdays for Lincoln’s friends and foes. And perhaps a few contemporaries who lived during his time but whom he may not have been personally acquainted with.   George B. McLellan - Major General (Union). Born December 3, 1826. Age 183.   George Armstrong Custer – Major ...
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• BOOK EXCERPT: John J. Miller’s ‘The First Assassin’

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 748
  Please enjoy this excerpt from the first and second chapters of “ The First Assassin .” CHAPTER ONE Saturday, February 23, 1861 When Lorenzo Smith heard the chugging of the train, he felt for the revolver at his side. His fingers met its smooth handle, hidden beneath his black coat. Then he found the short ...
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• The cruelties of women

  
  Sherry Chandler — Authority: 129
  Since I am on this sad subject, I had marked this passage to share with you from Rebecca Smith Lee’s Mary Austin Holley: A Biography (University of Texas Press, 1962).After Horace Holley’s death in 1827, Mary decided in 1829 to return to the Louisiana sugar plantation La Bonne Espérence, where the owners, the ...
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• Slave state

  
  Sherry Chandler — Authority: 129
  Some snippets from Helen Deiss Irvin on slavery:In the Kentucky social hierarchy, most powerless were black women. Subject to all of the abuses of slavery, they were vulnerable to additional ones as women. It was widely known, for example, that the slave trader Lewis Robards of Lexington sold black women into ...
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• “First Lady of Controversy”

  
  Sherry Chandler — Authority: 129
  A Springfield, Massachusetts, journal complained that Mary was a “dreadful woman” who forced “her repugnant Individuality before the world.”(Mrs. Lincoln, p. 275I have always felt a little protective of Mary Todd Lincoln, as though by my tenderness I could somehow change the outcome of her story or at least ...
  3 weeks ago

• The 19th century housewife

  
  Sherry Chandler — Authority: 129
  Even that most notorious of Southern Belles, that most notoriously pampered of wives, Mary Todd Lincoln, had a heavy (literally) work load. This was especially true for Mary while she was wife of that poor rising lawyer in Springfield. Here is Catherine Clinton’s description of a 19th century middle class urban ...
  4 weeks ago

• Russian Sees US “disintegration” in 2010; Norwegian Sees US collapse in 2020; American Sees Mary Todd as misunderstood

  
  Symon Sez — Authority: 128
  Russian Professor Says This is Our Fate At the end of last year, the Wall Street Journal reported the assessment of Igor Panarin who said that US would “disintegrate” by June or July of 2010 .   He said that a collapse of economy and of morals would result in a Civil War that would end with the United ...
  5 weeks ago

• A perversely cruel press

  
  Sherry Chandler — Authority: 129
  Over at Salon, Joan Walsh has this to say about press coverage of Bill Clinton:“The Clinton Tapes” makes clear that from start to finish, President Clinton was besieged by a vicious just-say-no GOP abetted by the perversely, inexplicably, cruelly anti-Clinton leaders of the so-called liberal media — from the New ...
  6 weeks ago

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