The story of President Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train will be the topic for the Vernon County Historical Society’s first free public program of 2025. Civil War historian and re-enactor Frederick ...

Yet history offers a useful morale and ethical guide for us: Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln’s presidency ... Lincoln’s assassination in 1865 robbed America of a leader uniquely equipped to heal ...

The southern widow's Maryland house was a crucial stop on the escape route for assassin John Wilkes Booth the night he shot the president. Read more about Abraham ...

Booth was the actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. He died 12 days later at the age of 26 when he was shot as he tried to flee.

A West Palm Beach man was arrested Friday night after police say he made a series of Facebook posts suggesting that President Donald Trump should be assassinated. Shannon Depararro Atkins, 46, is ...

Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, will be eulogized at a state funeral Thursday at the National Cathedral and later by private family services and interment in Plains, Georgia.

Alas for Seward, his proposal to expand the United States only excited opposition from a deeply hostile Congress, which was at loggerheads with President Andrew Johnson, who assumed the presidency ...

Trump was joined by his wife Melania Trump who was holding both a family bible and the one used by President Abraham Lincoln at his ... was sworn in following the assassination of William McKinley ...

We haven't had an assassination in years," followed by ... all were shot" featuring Trump, Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and Martin Luther King Jr. A West Palm Beach detective ...

Lyndon Johnson was sworn in with his hand on a Catholic prayer missal after the assassination of ... the other was the famous Lincoln Bible which Abraham Lincoln used at his swearing in.

Trump, 78, raised his right hand and took the oath of office using a Bible his mother gave him in 1955 that was stacked on a second Bible used by President Abraham Lincoln for his swearing-in in 1861.

The tradition, which began with a one-day government shutdown following Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, is one of many ways the United States honors its late presidents. President Joe ...