A new book follows Lyman Beecher, his boundary-pushing children, and their grand ambitions to improve the world.

Perched on a hill in Manchester overlooking the Battenkill Valley lies Hildene, the Lincoln family estate. Originally built by Robert Todd Lincoln, son of President Abraham Lincoln, the property ...

After her release, Mary Todd Lincoln lived a relatively quiet life, although she remained plagued by both psychiatric and physical ailments. She died in 1882 at age 63.

After her release, Mary Todd Lincoln lived a relatively quiet life, although she remained plagued by both psychiatric and physical ailments. She died in 1882 at the age of 63.

A verdict form, left, from a Cook County jury dated May 19, 1875, officially declared Mary Todd Lincoln “insane” and ordered her commitment to a sanitarium. At right, is a portrait of Mary ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — On May 19, 1875, a Cook County jury handed down a verdict in a case concerning the health and welfare of Mary Lincoln, widow of the former president who had been assassinated ...

Under instructions from Robert Todd Lincoln, the president's only surviving child, the president's body was placed inside a steel cage, lowered into a 10-foot-deep vault, and buried under tons of ...

The Lincoln Family Album Mamie, daughter of Robert Todd Lincoln — the president’s only child to make it to adulthood — called it home until 1935, sticking around long after Charles died in 1919.

The former Manhattan residence of Abraham Lincoln’s granddaughter is set to hit the market for $10.5 million. In 1906, Mary “Mamie” Lincoln Isham and her husband, Charles Isham, bought the ...

When the monument finally opened to the public in 1922, Robert Todd Lincoln was in attendance. 7. Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address took about three minutes to deliver.

After her husband's assassination in 1865, Mary Todd's eldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln, gradually became concerned about his mother's erratic behavior and had her committed to an insane asylum in ...