A newly discovered letter written by former first lady Mary Todd Lincoln shows a side of her that is rarely seen ... his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cole Escola, the playwright and original star of “Oh, Mary!,” is returning to the hit Broadway show in the title role of Mary Todd Lincoln starting April 8. Escola will be joined by fellow original ...

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 ...