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 ...

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 ...

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 ...