Lincoln & Herndon

[Angela]

Laurie,

Online just this past weekend, I read the opinion of a young doctoral student at George Washington U on the Abraham/Mary relationship. This girl opined that it is a well known fact that MTL "regularly beat both her husband and children". We don't have to guess who this student's primary source is. It's just as I predicted. An entire new generation of scholars is going to be influenced by the anti-Mary rants of the neo-Herndon, and that was at probably at least partially the intent all along.

That sounds like superficial work all in itself if she quoted Herndon when we now have HIS sources at hand. To me it always makes sense to read certain, and often overused, quotes in context.