Abraham Lincoln's wife was long attacked for everything from her spending to her lack of emotional restraint. But with two ...

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

Leader’s series on Lexington’s 250th birthday explains how a devastating fire wiped out the very first records of Lexington ...

and to know more about Mary Todd also becomes a way to understand Abraham Lincoln. Abundant evidence exists of her childish but also shrewd behavior, her high intelligence, her charm, her mercurial ...

Delusional and desperate do not describe Gilpin herself. She is warm and clear-eyed when we speak last week before her final rehearsal as Mrs. Lincoln. Oh Mary!, the brainchild of Escola, is the ...

They wrote and starred in the heavily fictionalized play that envisions Mary Todd Lincoln as an alcoholic first lady whose dreams of cabaret stardom are stifled by her husband. One of many ...

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 ...

The phenomenal global success of Six began when two young writers decided to give voices to the wives of a powerful man, ...

For three weeks only, from March 18 through April 6, Burgess will take on the title role at the Lyceum Theatre.

Oh, Mary! has found its next Mary! Emmy Award-nominated actor Betty Gilpin will take over the role of Mary Todd Lincoln ... Gilpin garnered rave reviews for her lead performance in Damon Lindelof ...

Mary Todd Lincoln is believed to have worn a ball gown with a crinoline skirt. Her dress featured ruffles and floret pattern. Elizabeth Keckley, born into slavery in Virginia, was the First Lady's ...