Cole Escola's Tony-winning play, Oh, Mary!, has cast a satirical new light on the life and legacy of former first lady Mary Todd Lincoln, who is currently portrayed on Broadway by 30 Rock's Jane ...
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Mary Todd Lincoln, Taken Out of Context
By now, you will be used to the feminist practice of finding a historical woman and rescuing her from the clutches of evil ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Historian Kelly Hancock talked about Mary Todd Lincoln's life after the Civil War. The Smithsonian Associates hosted this event.
“The author knows more about Lincoln than any other living person,” a distinguished Civil War historian, James McPherson, writes of Michael Burlingame. Another well regarded Lincoln biographer, Jon ...
The Broadway comedy Oh, Mary! is an intentionally ridiculous reimagining of first lady Mary Todd Lincoln. It portrays her as having become addicted to alcohol, not because of the Civil War, but ...
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The True Story of Mary Todd Lincoln: What Broadway's “Oh, Mary! ”Got Right and Wrong About the Troubled First Lady
The Tony-winning play paints Abraham Lincoln's wife as a boozy aspiring actress, but how does history really remember her? While much is known and documented about the early American presidents, ...
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