Donna D. McCreary, a writer, lecturer, and performer, wrote Lincoln’s Table: Victorian Recipes from Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois to the White House and an essay in Frank J. Williams and Michael Burkhimer’s edited collection, The Mary Lincoln Enigma (SIU Press, 2012). She is the author of Mary Lincoln Demystified: Frequently Asked Questions about Abraham's Wife (SIU Press, 2022) which was awarded…