| Web Site Review | The Journal of American History, 88.3

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Wet with Blood: The Investigation of Mary Todd Lincoln's Cloak <http://www.chicagohistory.org/wetwithblood/index.htm>. Created and maintained by the Chicago Historical Society and Northwestern University. Reviewed June 25–27, 2001.

Wet with Blood is part forensic drama, part history, part exhibit. The site capitalizes on the fascination with DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) testing and forensic science and might be aimed at K–12 students more interested in the next episode of Law and Order than in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Students will quickly discover some fascinating material in Wet with Blood, but the site seems aimed as much at the professional curatorial community as at students. 1

Wet with Blood takes visitors on a virtual tour of the Chicago Historical Society's artifacts related to the assassination of President Lincoln and the promotion after the Civil War through museums and exhibits of these relics, especially the cloak worn by Mary Todd Lincoln on the night of Lincoln's assassination. . . .

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