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

Mary Todd Lincoln, died of typhoid fever in the White House at age 11. Both the president and Mary were so distraught of their son's death, Mary turned to holding seances in the Red Room at the ...

Tituss Burgess will star in a limited run of Broadway's 'Oh, Mary!,' taking over the lead role from Betty Gilpin.

White’s “creative destruction ... A good deal can be learned about Lincoln by tracking the way he courted Mary Todd, and to know more about Mary Todd also becomes a way to understand Abraham Lincoln.

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 ...

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

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 ...

West Point graduate John Blair Smith Todd was no stranger to military action. He fought against Florida’s Seminole tribe in ...