“Other than the shooting, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?” Nearly 150 years ago, on a cold spring day in April, a theater full of people laughed, making the consequential noise that covered up the ...

When Abraham and Mary Lincoln moved into the White House in March of 1861, there wasn't enough matching china to have a dinner for even a dozen guests. "It wasn't just the tableware that was the ...

Portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln standing with her husband Abraham Lincoln seated beside her on her proper left in an ornate chair with the Presidential Seal on the back, his arms resting on the armrests ...

Cole Escola's Tony-winning play, Oh, Mary!, has cast a satirical new light on the life and legacy of former first lady Mary Todd Lincoln, who is currently portrayed on Broadway by 30 Rock's Jane ...

Ava Day waits for her turn to process out ahead of Tina Woolum during her wedding to Ron Carley. The couple celebrated their marriage dressed as Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd at Belle Grove in King ...

“The author knows more about Lincoln than any other living person,” a distinguished Civil War historian, James McPherson, writes of Michael Burlingame. Another well regarded Lincoln biographer, Jon ...

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