Monday, June 20, 2011

A dirt-farmer's son and a wealthy Southern slave-owner's daughter...

From award-winning film-maker David Grubin, this miniseries tells a remarkable story as only American Experience can. Together, Abraham and Mary Lincoln ascended to the pinnacle of power at the most difficult time in the nation's history, the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln's legacy as the Great Emancipator reshaped the nation while his tragic death left Mary reclusive and forgotten.

Presented in six parts, Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided begins with the story of the Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln's childhoods - his in a remote backwoods log cabin, hers in a wealthy Kentucky home - and describes their courtship. Mary sets her heart on the raw, socially awkward Lincoln, saying later: "He'll be President of the United States one day. If I had not thought so I never would have married him." Mondays at 9pm

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