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Born in Riverside, Illinois — about three hours from where Abraham Lincoln had lived with his family in Springfield — to ...
The former first lady’s biggest fans say people don’t get her, and the Broadway hit ‘Oh, Mary!’ isn’t exactly helping the ...
Mary Todd used to say: “I am going to be the president’s wife.” When she finally met and married Abraham Lincoln, a lawyer who rose through the Illinois state Legislature and the House of ...
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. Abundant evidence exists of her ...
Abe and Mary are part Rhett Butler and Scarlett ... From all I’ve written above, it no doubt sounds like the show mocks Mary Todd Lincoln, and so it does, notwithstanding a biography filled ...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — In Lexington, learning about Abraham Lincoln begins at the Mary Todd Lincoln House, the childhood home of Lincoln's beloved wife. "They were married for quite a while ...
with the starting point of “What if Abe’s assassination wasn’t such a bad thing for Mary Todd Lincoln?” and an image of themselves as Mary in a hoop skirt and ringlet curls. After mulling ...
The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd.” “It seems implausible to me that she would be a figure upon which a comedy would be based.” So would he see “Oh, Mary!”?