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 ...

A newly discovered letter written by former first lady Mary Todd Lincoln shows a side of ... the context of the government ...

Since 1998, the City of Alexandria has celebrated March as Women’s History Month. The City of Alexandria offers its annual ...

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 ...

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 ...

He is going from “Pinot Noir” to Civil War. Emmy-nominated Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt star Tituss Burgess will star as Mary Todd Lincoln in the Broadway production of Oh, Mary!, which is ...

Abraham Lincoln is often ranked as one of the United States’s most important presidents for his role in steering the country through the Civil War ... and his wife, Mary Todd, lost three of ...

“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 ...