Modern Money Lessons From Mary Todd Lincoln

The play, which just ended its run at the historic theater in the District of Columbia, explores the days after President Lincoln's assassination, when Mary struggles to regain her sense of identity and live amid her grief. As her character, played by Mary Bacon, faces dozens of unpaid bills for home furnishings, clothes and jewelry, she asks, "How will I ever pay these debts? I am no one." On top of moving out of the White House, mothering her sons and moving forward with her life, Lincoln must