Mary Surratt: Conspirator, Convenient Villain, or History’s Unluckiest Landlady?

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Lindsay is joined by Alex from Second Guess Everything to discuss the execution of Mary Surratt, as well as how innocence can be questioned in a court of law, why your boardinghouse shouldn’t be a secret meeting place, and how to be the first at something awful.

Information pulled from the following sources

• 2025 All That’s Interesting article by Austin Harvey

• 2025 Boundary Stones article by Kira Quintin

• 2025 History post

• 2024 Elections Daily article by Sarah Stock

• 2024 History Extra article by James Osborne

• 2020 Landmark Events article

• 2017 The Imaginative Conservative post by Ryan Walters

• 2015 Shapell article by Benjamin Shapell and Sara Willen

• 2011 The Arlington Catholic Herald post by Richard Szczepanowski

• 2011 Women History Blog post

• Britannica article

• Digital Georgetown

• Find a Grave (1)

• Historical Novel Society post by Susan Higginbotham

• Illinois Supreme Court Historic Preservation Commission

• Lincoln Conspirators post

• The White House Historical Association

• Wikipedia (1)

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