Elizabeth Hardwick, visiting her home town of Lexington, Kentucky, in the late nineteen-sixties, declared that “the glory of the place is a certain vault-like solidity.” Even so, she could find in ...
Case Reopened: Mary Todd Lincoln—widow of Abraham Lincoln, pictured here circa 1846—was scorned by her country and put on trial. Now, she’s been given a new lease on legacy. Credit: Wikimedia Commons ...
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The life and legacy of Mary Todd Lincoln
A new biography titled "An Inconvenient Widow" by veteran journalist Lois Romano looks at the crucial influence Mary Todd Lincoln had in her husband's rise to the presidency, and the failures of those ...
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