<p>By Jason Emerson</p><p>Mary Ann Todd was born in Lexington, Ky., in 1818. She was raised in an aristocratic, slave-owning family and traveled in exclusive social circles. When she was a young ...

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 ...

The Insanity File: The Case of Mary Todd Lincoln By Mark E. Neely and R. Gerald McMurtry Southern Illinois University Press, 217 pages, $19.95 The Trials of Mrs. Lincoln By Samuel A. Schreiner Dona… ...

Ever since The New York Times announced the portrait’s discovery in 1929, on Feb. 12, Lincoln’s birthday, historians and the public have assumed it depicted Mary Todd Lincoln.

Lifestyle Mary Todd Lincoln seen in new light after ‘remarkable’ letter written by former First Lady discovered: expert By Christine Rousselle, Fox Business Published April 30, 2024, 11:05 p.m. ET ...

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 Hall.

Jinkx Monsoon was backstage in her dressing room during the middle of a Pirates! The Penzance Musical performance when she ...

Sealed With Sorrow: Mary Lincoln in Letters Six previously unknown letters written by Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of Abraham Lincoln, and one by their son, Robert, come to light 117 years after her ...

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 ...

Sealed With Sorrow: Mary Lincoln in Letters Six previously unknown letters written by Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of Abraham Lincoln, and one by their son, Robert, come to light 117 years after her ...