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 ...
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 ...
“Oh, Mary!” follows Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to her husband’s assassination. It has nothing to do with the Civil War or politics, but focuses rather on Mary’s burning ...
La Jolla Playhouse’s world premiere musical digs deep into the experiences of Frederick Douglass and the freed Black slaves ...
Watch a video of the creative team behind 3 Summer of Lincoln discuss the process behind adding music to Abraham Lincoln's ...
Abraham Lincoln said goodbye to his friend for the last time as they left the meeting that afternoon. It was Friday, April 14 ...
One of the best features the wonderful Carmen Cusack as a wise and sympathetically depicted Mary Todd Lincoln helping ... them events of the Civil War in 1862-1864 to today’s sharply divided ...
As they paraded by him for the first time in March of 1864, soldiers of the Army of the Potomac knew the general in full dress blues, accented with sash and sword, was the freshly minted commander of ...
It’s also President’s Day, and the Lexington History Museum, Ashland: The Henry Clay Estate and the Mary Todd Lincoln House ... people from before the Civil War and of Black laborers after ...