Mary Todd Lincoln may be the most vilified first lady in American history. This is not because she was uniquely unscrupulous ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lady Mary’s wedding dress, as worn by Michelle Dockery in the third series of Downton Abbey It’s an uncanny experience to see a ...

In “An Inconvenient Widow,” Lois Romano defends the most reviled first lady from her detractors past and present.

Jaap Buitendijk / Focus / Kobal / Shutterstock It's always interesting to find elements of truth in the fictional storylines ...

The fire may be out, but relationships at 'Downton' are still burning. Lady Mary and Lord Gillingham go on vacation while Lord Grantham picks a fight with everyone in the house! Click to read the full ...

The taste for androgyny among women at the time had much to do with their entering the workforce when men went off to fight in WWI. As the men came home, women weren’t exactly looking forward to ...

Inauguration Day, March 4, 1861. On a brilliantly sunny day in Washington, arguably the biggest moment of Mary Todd Lincoln’s ...

Downton Abbey changed the lives of Lady Mary Crawley (Michelle Dockery) and Lady Edith Crawley (Laura Carmichael) in the same episode. Downton Abbey season 5's Christmas special, "A Moorland Holiday," ...

Mary Todd Lincoln buried her husband as well as three of four sons. Grief of a different sort defined her relationship with ...

Two righteous women ruled the roost on TV on Sunday night — Michonne, the sword-wielding avenger on AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” and Lady Mary Crawley, of PBS’s “Downton Abbey.” Of the two characters, ...

After the first season of “Downton Abbey,” which wraps up its hugely successful six-season run on Sunday, critics and fans alike found plenty to lampoon. The legal redundancies of Mr. and Mrs. Bates, ...