Letter from Mary Todd Lincoln, newly discovered, shows rare side of former first lady, says expert
A newly discovered letter written by former first lady Mary Todd Lincoln shows a side of her that is rarely seen ... his ...
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1 Subtle Manhunt Lines Explains The Lincoln Family's Relationship With John Wilkes Booth’s Brother
as it focuses on Mary Todd Lincoln and her intense grief after losing her husband. In particular, Mary Todd finds solace in talking with Edwin Booth, who is not only a famous actor, but the ...
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Lesson Plan: Wives of the Civil War Presidents
This lesson compares the experiences, roles, and legacies of Mary Todd Lincoln and Varina Davis, the wives of the Civil War era presidents. The lesson, which features historian Kelly Hancock speaking ...
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Beyond the First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln; a look at all the women in late Abraham Lincoln's life
Mary Todd Lincoln: Mary Ann Todd was born into a large and wealthy slave-owning family in Kentucky, although Mary never owned slaves and in her adulthood came to oppose slavery. After finishing ...
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The amazing story behind the only photograph of President Lincoln in death
When the assassinated president was laid out in his coffin in the rotunda of New York's City Hall for a viewing attended by 120,000 people on April 24, 1865, his widow, Mary Todd Lincoln ...
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What’s Behind Broadway’s Buzziest Changing of the Guard?
Courtesy Sam Pinkleton Betty Gilpin, who’s currently playing Mary Todd Lincoln in the Broadway hit Oh, Mary!, in her dressing room. At what point did the idea come about that playing Mary Todd ...
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Mrs President review
Bravely eccentric two-hander about Mary Todd Lincoln, Civil War-era first lady ... struggle and tragedy – childhood bereavement, the loss of her own child, her dabbles in the occult, periods ...