A newly discovered letter written by former first lady Mary Todd Lincoln shows a side of ... the context of the government during the Civil War, working to get women involved in the war effort ...

Attendees of the sold-out March 8 Springfield Civil War Symposium had gained ... his arrival immediately ran afoul of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln when Secretary of State William Seward lifted ...

Lincoln’s friends remained worried. As the Civil War entered its final months ... But he was important to Mary Todd Lincoln, the president’s wife, and had become a regular visitor to the ...

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 ...

By Joshua Barone “Oh!” Tituss Burgess said, the curls of his Mary Todd Lincoln wig bobbing as he spoke. “I need kneepads.” Fully in costume, wearing the wig and a bell-shaped black dress ...

When the assassinated president was laid out in his coffin in the rotunda of New York's City Hall for a viewing attended by 120,000 people on April 24, 1865, his widow Mary Todd Lincoln explicitly ...