For all his modesty and wartime preoccupation, the 16th president was one of the most photographed men of his time, with a ...

Bravely eccentric two-hander about Mary Todd Lincoln, Civil War-era first lady of the United States, starring Miriam Grace ...

The road to the perfect commemorative photograph is anything but smooth with their two unruly personalities. Written by historian playwright John Ransom-Phillips and directed by Bronagh Lagan, Mrs ...

Library of Congress One of Mathew Brady's portraits of Mary Todd Lincoln – which were not destroyed, despite her instructions (Credit: Library of Congress) Such reports did not go down well in ...

It was Theodore Roosevelt — a lifelong admirer of Abraham Lincoln — who ordered the U.S. Mint to introduce copper pennies ...

On Feb. 14, 2005, video-sharing website YouTube was founded by former PayPal employees. The company was purchased by Google a year and a half later for $1.65 billion.

Mathew Brady is known for his Civil War photography and groundbreaking work in the field. Read more about the Civil War at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history ...

Such is the use of creative licence in the script that I came away not sure whether any of the details are to be taken at face value.