<p>In 1862, in the midst of a bloody civil war, President Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary, suffered unspeakable heartache when their young son died. To combat her grief, First Lady Mary Lincoln became a devotee of Spiritualism making the White House a center for Washington, D.C.'s Spiritualist community. For decades historians have maintained that President Lincoln only attended a few seances in an attempt to protect his mentally unstable wife. This narrative is incorrect, using a host of previously neglected primary sources, historian Michelle L. Hamilton documents the numerous seances President Lincoln attended and the interest he had for the religion. Michelle L. Hamilton's "I Would Still Be Drowned in Tears" sheds new light onto the Lincolns' interest in Spiritualism and proves that Mary Lincoln might not have been the only Spiritualist in the White House. "Perhaps now we can frankly admit, without ridicule or condemnation, the role Spiritualism played in the lives of Abraham and Mary,"--William Weeks, Ph.D., San Diego State University</p>

"I Would Still Be Drowned in Tears": Spiritualism in Abraham Lincoln's White House

History

Hamilton, Michelle L.

Americas

Vanderblumen Publications

<p>The Civil War Diaries of Private James A. Meyers, 45th PA Volunteers - Hospital Stewart</p>

"My Heart Is In The Cause" ...: The Civil War Diaries of Private James A. Meyers, 45th PA Volunteers

Military

Biography of Mary Ball Washington, The Mother of George Washington. Details of her life covering 1708 to 1789.

Mary Ball Washington - Mother of George Washington

Michelle L. Hamilton

Virginia's Ghosts and Legends: Vol. One

Religion & Spirituality

Occult & Paranormal

The Morbid Curious No. 1: The Journal of Ghosts, Murder, and the Macabre

Biographies & Memoirs

Taylor, Troy

Woomer, Amanda R.

Kruse, Rene

Florence-Thomas, Trevelyn

True Crime

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MORBID CURIOUS 3: Journal of Ghosts, Murder, and the Macabre

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