On July 27, at 7 p.m., as the sun sank over the Rappahannock and smeared the sky in pink, an extraordinarily tall and distinguished man in a cream linen suit ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Abraham Lincoln is still known 130 years after his death as Honest Abe, but a new book about the 16th president suggests he had to do the honorable thing and marry Mary Todd ...

Mary Todd Lincoln turned 24 a month after the wedding. Lincoln was 33. Temple notes that later in life, Mary Lincoln would lie about the age at which she married and refer to herself in ...

It takes some effort, though, to roll back that clock, to see Mary Todd as Lincoln first saw her.Daguerreotypes taken later in her life, for instance, show a rather grave and rounded woman with a ...