Witnessed the death of three of the four as well as her own husbands assassination. Though her life was filled with tragedy, she relished in their success. As we focus on the civil war years, one of the defining moments in our countrys history, a look at the life and times of Mary Todd Lincoln, one of the most complex first ladies ever to live in the white house. Thanks for being with us for cspan continuing series on first ladies influence and image. We invite to history advisers for the whole series to be our guests for this program. Let me introduce you to roslynter borg penn. And Richard Nortan smith our guest and at our table is the director of five president ial libraries including the Abraham Lincoln library in springfield, illinois. Thank you both for being here. Mary todd lincoln and this is a question for both, well start with richard, is viewed in broad strokes, bouts of depression, criticism of her lavish spending and and indulgent mother and what do you see. Oh, boy. That
You managed to find. Good afternoon. Im michelle crowell. Im the secretary of the Lincoln Forum, and i will be your moderator for session two of the forum today. Im not entirely sure that our its probably facing better. If not, ill just use my teacher and screaming at you. Im not entirely sure that our next presenter actually sleeps. And you already know who im talking about because no one could be as productive he is and actually get a good nights. But we are all the beneficial of mr. Sandmans deficiencies as year after year. Jonathan white continues to enrich us with new sources and scholarship on abraham and the civil war. For those of you who are not familiar already with john, john whites many accomplishment arts, he is a professor of american studies at Christopher Newport university, where hes taught since 2009, in 2019, he received state council of higher education, virginias outstanding faculty. Thats a really long name, jonathan the highest honor bestowed upon College Faculty
Good afternoon. Im michelle crowell. Im the secretary of the Lincoln Forum, and i will be your moderator for session two of the forum today. Im not entirely sure that our its probably facing better. If not, ill just use my teacher and screaming at you. Im not entirely sure that our next presenter actually sleeps. And you already know who im talking about because no one could be as productive he is and actually get a good nights. But we are all the beneficial of mr. Sandmans deficiencies as year after year. Jonathan white continues to enrich us with new sources and scholarship on abraham and the civil war. For those of you who are not familiar already with john, john whites many accomplishment arts, he is a professor of american studies at Christopher Newport university, where hes taught since 2009, in 2019, he received state council of higher education, virginias outstanding faculty. Thats a really long name, jonathan the highest honor bestowed upon College Faculty by the commonwealth