This lesson compares the experiences, roles, and legacies of Mary Todd Lincoln and Varina Davis, the wives of the Civil War era presidents. The lesson, which features historian Kelly Hancock speaking ...

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 ...

God bless America, and how's everybody?

One of the best features the wonderful Carmen Cusack as a wise and sympathetically depicted Mary Todd Lincoln helping ... them events of the Civil War in 1862-1864 to today’s sharply divided ...

Watch a video of the creative team behind 3 Summer of Lincoln discuss the process behind adding music to Abraham Lincoln's story for the new musical, which has an original score of gospel, R&B, ...

Lex celebrates Women’s History Month by collaborating with local museums to examine the contributions women have made in the ...

At the Mary Todd Lincoln House, visitors can see exactly ... which made her a successful First Lady during the American Civil War. Although history remembers her as troubled, Mary Todd’s life ...

Nevertheless, “’Red Scare’ resonates because it speaks so directly to our current quandary of far left and far right.” Also, ...

Descendants of characters in “Operation Mincemeat,” a hit British musical now in New York, have gotten more out of seeing it ...

Nearly a century after the Civil Conservation Corps reconstructed the once-thriving village of New Salem where Abraham ...