Mary Lincoln | Public service demands loyalty, courage, and resilience—not perfection

Lois Romano explores Mary Lincoln's courage and resilience in this essay published by In Pursuit.

Romano is a long-time national political journalist who was an editor, columnist, and reporter for The Washington Post and POLITICO, and who has covered numerous first ladies. She is the author of An Inconvenient Widow: The Torment, Trial, and Triumph of Mary Todd Lincoln (2026).

Image Credit: Matthew Brady, "Mary Lincoln." Daguerreotype, c. 1861-1865. Library of Congress Photographs and Prints Division.

In Pursuit is a landmark initiative of More Perfect, a bipartisan alliance of 44 Presidential Centers, National Archives Foundation, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Karsh Institute for Democracy at the University of Virginia, and more than 100 organizations working together to protect and renew our democracy as we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and beyond.

TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS
0:00 The Overlooked Strength of Mary Todd Lincoln
1:10 Breaking Ground: Transforming the Role of First Lady
2:30 Defending Washington: Courage on the Front Lines
3:45 Family Contradictions & The Civil War
5:00 Standing by the Emancipation Proclamation
6:15 Overcoming Unspeakable Personal Tragedy
7:30 Why Modern History is Re-evaluating Mary Lincoln
8:45 The "In Pursuit" Initiative & America 250

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