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

Kentuckians know the Bluegrass State is the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, but the Commonwealth was also home to his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln. In fact, her family lived in a Georgian abode in ...

The Mary Todd Lincoln House's mission is to "cultivate public interest in the multilayered past by sharing the story of a woman whose experiences resonate today." Posted . and last updated.

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

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 children.

Was Abraham Lincoln gay? The question, not a new one, is delicately and touchingly presented in “Courting Mr. Lincoln,” a work of historical fiction in which the husband-hunting Mary Todd ...

On July 27, at 7 p.m., as the sun sank over the Rappahannock and smeared the sky in pink, an extraordinarily tall and distinguished man in a cream linen suit ...

Three years ago, Candace O’Donnell put on a one-woman show about Mary Todd Lincoln at the Ware Center. Hoping for an audience of 50 or 60 people, she ended up selling out its 350-seat Steinman ...

Just after President Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1861 and his edgy wife Mary Todd returned to The White House in Washington from an exorbitant shopping blitz that included waltzing into Philly ...

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 around her understands," Escola says.

Frank Williams talked about Mary Todd Lincoln's life and how historians have remembered her. Many historians disagree about Mary Todd Lincoln, some calling her corrupt and mentally unstable, and ...

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 ...