Tazewell Thompson isn't the only theater artist who is inspired to create a stage work about the life of Elizabeth Keckly, the former slave who became a dressmaker and friend to Mary Todd Lincoln. "They Call Me Lizzy...from Slavery to the White House,"...

(MCT) — A celebrated portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln that hung for years in the Illinois governor’s mansion in Springfield was an elaborate fraud apparently concocted to swindle President Abraham Lincoln’s descendants, according to the curator of the...

Yesterday the first teaser was unleashed for the action horror adaptation of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, and while it delivered what most expected, something doesn't seem right about it still. Anyway, now there's an international trailer for the...

The painting was famous almost as much for its back story — also a lie — as for the artistry itself, museum curator James Cornelius said Saturday. "It was supposedly a gift Mary Lincoln planned to give to her husband, but then he was assassinated and...

In fact, President Obama won that state. (In the 100 counties with the highest dependence on federal aid, Mr. McCain won two-thirds of them.) • Because of an editing error, an article on Sunday about a portrait believed to be of Mary Todd Lincoln that...

Ill. (CBS) — On the official Illinois holiday honoring President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, word of a famous painting of his First Lady is being called a fraud. As WBBM Newsradio’s John Hultman reports, the portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln hung in the...