A vibrant social history set against the backdrop of the Antebellum south and the Civil War that recreates the lives and friendship of two exceptional women: First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and her mulatto dressmaker, Elizabeth Keckly.
“I consider you my best living friend,” Mary Lincoln wrote to Elizabeth Keckly in 1867, and indeed theirs was a close, if tumultuous, relationship. Born into slavery, mulatto Elizabeth Keckly was...

The remarkable story of the friendship between a first lady and a former slave. (LINCOLN COLLECTION)

Map of Territorial Expansion and Slavery, 1819-1854; Includes bibliographical references.