When President Abraham Lincoln and his wife, Mary — in 1863, while in the White House — received a live turkey for the family to feast on at Christmas, their precocious eight-year-old son Tad ...

Lincoln and his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, shared four sons but only one lived into adulthood. The luckiest Lincoln child was Robert Todd, their first-born son, who went on to follow in his father's ...

On July 26, 1867 two sons of a nation’s fallen president stayed overnight in Richmond. Abraham Lincoln had been gone two years. His sons, Robert Todd and Thomas (Tad) Lincoln were spending the ...

Robert Lincoln was the Lincoln's first son, and the only one to survive past his teenage years. Despite surviving his adolescence, Robert was nearly killed on a train platform in 1863 or 1864.

For the role of Lincoln's son, Tad Lincoln, producers are looking for a boy age 9 to 11. Media outlets report the casting call is from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Greater Richmond Convention ...

Lincoln in the Bardo (Random House, 343 pp., **** out of four stars), George Saunders’ exhilarating and theatrical new novel about a grieving Abraham Lincoln, cries out for a stage adaptation.