President Abraham Lincoln's wife Mary Todd would serve him this cake while the couple courted. It would go on to become one ...

Mary’s getting a new cabinet! The Tony-winning production of Oh, Mary! has just announced that joining Jinkx Monsoon in her ...

Mary Todd Lincoln, who may have suffered from bipolar disorder, verbally abused her husband, President Abe Lincoln, and anyone else around her, a new book details.

<p>By Jason Emerson</p><p>Mary Ann Todd was born in Lexington, Ky., in 1818. She was raised in an aristocratic, slave-owning family and traveled in exclusive social circles. When she was a young ...

Mary Todd Lincoln seen in new light after ‘remarkable’ letter written by former First Lady discovered: expert By Christine Rousselle, Fox Business Published April 30, 2024, 11:05 p.m. ET ...

The Insanity File: The Case of Mary Todd Lincoln By Mark E. Neely and R. Gerald McMurtry Southern Illinois University Press, 217 pages, $19.95 The Trials of Mrs. Lincoln By Samuel A. Schreiner Dona… ...

Escola began to imagine a "second chapter" for Mary Todd Lincoln, an idea that evolved slowly over 12 years. In 2024, Oh, Mary!, starring Escola in the title role, debuted off-Broadway.

Chicago judges retried Mary Todd Lincoln under 2012 Illinois law and asked the audience to decide if she should have been involuntarily committed to an asylum. In 1875, ten years after she left ...

Ever since The New York Times announced the portrait’s discovery in 1929, on Feb. 12, Lincoln’s birthday, historians and the public have assumed it depicted Mary Todd Lincoln.

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 ...

Six previously unknown letters written by Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of Abraham Lincoln, and one by their son, Robert, come to light 117 years after her death at age 64 in 1882; were obtained from ...

Executive Director Gwen Thompson gave a tour of the house in which first lady Mary Todd Lincoln was raised. Born in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1818, Mary Todd Lincoln was the fourth of sixteen ...