Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of President Abraham Lincoln, wearing the gown in which she appeared at the inaugural ball held in honor of her husband. The two were married Nov. 4, 1842. Sun-Times file ...

AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd By Michael Burlingame. Mary Lincoln was not a great first lady. A compulsive shopper, she ran up huge debts that she tried to ...

The hottest ticket in town features a hilariously scheming Mary Todd Lincoln who dreams of returning to her cabaret roots, but she’s stuck aimlessly wandering around the White House while ...

By the spring of 1842, Lincoln had resumed courting Mary Todd, and he married her in November of that same year. "He was reluctant to marry, but Lincoln marries up," says Stauffer.

Dorothy McClerren, 96, portrayed Mary Todd Lincoln in her daughter’s home to share her talents with Heartland Hospice workers ...

Growing up as a child in Lexington, Ky., 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 ...

Once you were past 20, something must be wrong with you if you were attractive and had money but weren’t married.” Mary Todd Lincoln turned 24 a month after the wedding. Lincoln was 33.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Abraham Lincoln is still known 130 years after his death as Honest Abe, but a new book about the 16th president suggests he had to do the honorable thing and marry Mary Todd ...

Mary Todd Lincoln, to be clear, whose arraignment in the court of mid-19th-century public opinion enrolls her in a vexed sorority with today’s first ladies and female politicians.

Escola’s Mary Todd isn’t the American first lady that Julie Harris received a Tony Award for playing in “The Last of Mrs. Lincoln,” James Prideaux’s 1972 Broadway biodrama. Nor does this ...