A newly discovered letter written by former first lady Mary Todd Lincoln shows a side of her that is rarely seen, an author and historical document expert told FOX Business. The letter is ...

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The only photograph of Abraham Lincoln in death almost never survived. When the assassinated president was laid out in his coffin in the rotunda of New York's City Hall for a viewing attended by ...

Mary Todd Lin­coln prob­a­bly con­tracted syphilis from ... it was rain­ing that “he could not bear the idea of it rain­ing on Ann’s grave.” Accord­ing to Lincoln’s biog­ra­pher, friend, and law ...

With the US election taking place, the world will be watching to see if Donald Trump will be voted back into the haunted ...

Such a friend was John T. Stuart, who later became Lincoln's first law partner, and who was a first cousin of Mary Todd; whom Lincoln married. The failure of James Rutledge, and the news that Ann ...

The opera glasses, since engraved, were supposedly those used by Mary Todd Lincoln on the night of her husband Abraham Lincoln's assassination A pair of opera glasses reportedly used by former US ...

This year Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre resurrected a laugh-off version of President Abraham Lincoln’s long-suffering and well-oiled wife Mary Todd Lincoln. The short dark comedy, “Oh ...

The real Mary Todd’s post-assassination life involved stays in mental institutions and rusticating with her sister, but on Broadway Escola and Pinkleton make sure the lady gets a boffo sendoff.

Oh, Mary! is a dark comedy starring Cole Escola as a miserable, suffocated Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Unrequited yearning, alcoholism and ...

SUMMERHAYES, Mary P. Todd Mary was born in Denver, March 13, 1955. She passed away at home, in the loving care of her family, on Tuesday, August 18, 2009. Mary graduated from Littleton High School ...

With “Oh, Mary!,” writer-star Escola has gifted Broadway with one of its funniest shows of the last decade — audiences will be hard-pressed to find another show with more laughs per minute. Escola’s ...