Oneida Public Library News<\/p>\n
(Oneida, NY – March 2013) Lincoln scholar and author Jason Emerson will appear at Oneida Public Library Saturday March 2 at 2 p.m. to reveal the personal life of Abraham Lincoln at home in the White House with his wife Mary and his sons Robert, William (\u201cWillie\u201d) and Thomas (\u201cTad\u201d).<\/p>\n
While the Civil War ravaged the country, at times even within shooting-distance of the capital, the Lincoln family attempted to live a normal life in the White House. But their lives were far from normal, darkened by illnesses, the death of a much-loved son, Mary\u2019s instability and public unpopularity, Lincoln\u2019s crushing burdens as president and commander in chief and the dangers posed by enemies, both Confederate and Union.<\/p>\n
Emerson, who resides in Cazenovia, is well versed in Lincoln\u2019s public and private life and has made a career in doing original research and writing about Lincoln as private citizen, his wife Mary Todd and their children.
\nLast year was a banner year for Emerson with the publication of his definitive biography \u201cGiant in the Shadows: The Life of Robert T. Lincoln\u201d and \u201cMary Lincoln\u2019s Insanity Case: A Documentary History.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGiant in the Shadows\u201d is the story of Lincoln\u2019s eldest son Robert, from his birth in a boarding house in 1843 to his death in 1926, publically hailed as an eminent lawyer, highly respected statesman and wealthy businessman. Emerson focuses particularly on Robert\u2019s relationship with his famous father and his mentally unstable mother.<\/p>\n
Emerson\u2019s history of Mary Todd Lincoln centers on her mental condition after her husband\u2019s assassination until her death. In that time, she suffered the death of her son Tad, prosecution in an insanity trial instigated by her son Robert, incarceration in an insane asylum and the opprobrium of the American public. To tell the story, Emerson presents more than a hundred letters, newspaper articles, legal documents, the trial transcript, doctors\u2019 reports and the reminiscences of friends and acquaintances.<\/p>\n
Emerson is also the author of \u201cLincoln the Inventor: and \u201cThe Madness of Mary Lincoln.\u201d His book \u201cLincoln\u2019s Lover: Mary Lincoln in Poetry\u201d will be published soon. He is currently at work on a history of Robert Lincoln\u2019s home in Hildene, Vt.<\/p>\n
Emerson\u2019s lecture Lincoln and His Family is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n
For more information, stop by the Oneida Library, 220 Broad St., or call\u00a0363-3050.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Oneida Public Library News (Oneida, NY – March 2013) Lincoln scholar and author Jason Emerson will appear at Oneida Public Library Saturday March 2 at 2 p.m. to reveal the personal life of Abraham Lincoln at home in the White House with his wife Mary and his sons Robert, William (\u201cWillie\u201d) and Thomas (\u201cTad\u201d). While […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16151,16179],"class_list":["post-42765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-oneida-ny-news","tag-oneida-public-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}