mary lincoln is bereft. it's the second son of the lincolns who has died. elizabeth keckley is very much a part of the lincoln weiss house . the civil wars happening at this time. mary lincoln has been highly emotional and volatile and president lincoln is very busy trying to deal with the civil war. elizabeth becomes that confidant , close with the lincolns, both the president and mary lincoln, and their sons. at that time it is elizabeth keckley who consoles mary lincoln and it bonds them and their friendship went on and the lincolns were in the white house and beyond. elizabeth keckley is the one who prepares the little boy for the funeral. she is the one in the room when president lincoln walks in and says good by. six months prior, elizabeth's only son george who could pass as white signed up to fight for the union and the civil war. it was pretty emancipation proclamation. legally it was not because he was mixed-race, but he signed up because he wanted to fight for the union that's how much he believed in freedom. he died in his first battle and burie

mary lincoln always been highly emotional, volatile and president lincoln, of course, is very busy trying to deal with the civil war. and elizabeth becomes almost again that confidante that close with the lincolns, both president and mary lincoln, and with their sons. but at that time, it's elizabeth keckley who consoles mary lincoln, and this is what binds them in their friendship that went on for not just the time that the lincolns were in the white house, but beyond. elizabeth keckley is the one who prepares little boy for the funeral. she is the one in the room when president lincoln this is all president lincoln walks in and says goodbye to his dead son. six months prior to this, elizabeth's only son, george, who could pass as white, signed up to fight for the union in the civil war. it was premiums patient proclamation. so legally he wasn't because he was a mixed race. he was a black man, but he signed up because he wanted to fight for the union. that's how much? he believed in freedom. he died in his first battle, was buried in a mass grave. elizabeth was never able to marry his so

keckley is part of the lincoln white house and os the civil war is happening at this time and mary lincoln has always been a highly emotional person and a little volatile and president lincoln is busy trying to deal with the civil war and elizabeth becomes almost that confidant and close with the lincolns and their sons but at that time it is elizabeth who consoles mary lincoln and this bonds them in their friendship that went on when the lincolns were in the white house and beyond and she is the one who prepares the little boy for the funeral and she is the one in the room with president lincoln and resident lincoln walks in and says goodbye to his dead son and six months prior to that elizabeth only son george who could pass as white, signed up to fight la for the union in the civil war. it was the pre-emancipation proclamation so legally because he was mixed race he was a black man but he signed up because he wanted to fight for the union and that is how much he believed in freedom and he died in his first battle and buried in a mass grave and elizabeth never was able to mourn her son a

host: mary todd lincoln. what can we learn about that?s valuable to look at interaction with people who are different genders and different classes than he was. with respect, i have learned a lot from different generations of books about lincoln that primarily focused on his interactions with white men. it is understandable because it is hard to find source material about other people that he met with. mary todd lincoln was ambitious from a different background than lincoln, but they shared ambition. she was politically very interested and very astute, but also extraordinarily difficult and temperamental person to deal with. lincoln was probably not an ideal husband because he was a politician and a lawyer. he suffered from depression and was often lost in thought. he must've been a very difficult person to raise children with, but she had difficulty dealing with the tragedies in their lives. and lincoln was trying to deal with her. the skills that he had to learn to get through his marriage resembled the skills he needed to get through h

you don't have to go to carlisle for an indian school just half mile from here was the lincoln institute. right. mary mchenry cox, who had been it was a wealthy woman. benevolence had set up a a a school for civil war. and when she ran out of civil war orphans, she started stealing sue and chippewa children and bringing them to philadelphia to put them into to. i just sat through a session this morning which someone was making the claim that we need to re period. i actually had someone of former students cleo anthony johnson of wesleyan university sharing some his work and imploring us to read period i's american indian educational history so that the boarding schools aren't seen as the beginnings of this essentially child removal program and that even throughout the colonial and not just antebellum, but pre-dating the revolution a missionary schools or mission schools were established throughout new england that this form of benevolence, that ultimately extend to pre existing anglophone and european continental programs, of educating minor children away from they're either poor or ethnically diverse