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 ...

Born in Riverside, Illinois — about three hours from where Abraham Lincoln had lived with his family in Springfield — to ...

“They’re polar opposites, Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln,” says Johnston. “She’s spending a lot of money, and he can’t be bothered by that.” As the former U.S ...

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!”?

It was only natural that they would marry as Abraham Lincoln and 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 ...

The former first lady’s biggest fans say people don’t get her, and the Broadway hit ‘Oh, Mary!’ isn’t exactly helping the ...

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 court of public opinion has found no First Lady more wanting than Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of Abraham Lincoln. Her husband, who emancipated the slaves, and saved the union, enjoys near ...

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 ...