Living host, Jaclyn Friedlander talks to Mary Todd Lincoln about the first-time walking into The White House. Step back in ...

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 ...

“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 ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — On May 19, 1875, a Cook County jury handed down a verdict in a case concerning the health and welfare of Mary Lincoln, widow of the former president who had been assassinated a ...

Escola gives the former first lady a wild second act in the Tony-nominated play Oh, Mary! "This play is about a woman with a dream that no one... Mary Todd Lincoln as a cabaret star? How Cole Escola's ...

February 12th marks the 216th birthday of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States of America, and arguably one of the best as well. While Abe would go on to rank among the most ...

Mary Todd Lincoln would not, at first blush, seem an especially ripe subject for camp. The wife of the man whom many consider our greatest president led a life riddled with tragedy, from the deaths of ...

To tell Dorothy McClerren’s life story requires understanding she likes to tell other people’s life stories. For about a half hour Friday afternoon, McClerren, 96, portrayed Mary Todd Lincoln in her ...

A handwritten letter by First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln is for sale for the first time. The letter, which attempts to get a girl a job at the Treasury Department, was an inherited family heirloom. It’s ...

The Tony-winning play paints Abraham Lincoln's wife as a boozy aspiring actress, but how does history really remember her? While much is known and documented about the early American presidents, ...