The only way we know of and learn about history is through preservation. Sometimes, that is in text—others in relics. These ...

The film recounts the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln, focusing on his assassination at Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865, ...

Abraham Lincoln said goodbye to his friend for the last time as they left the meeting that afternoon. It was Friday, April 14 ...

Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War will be the topic of the next — and next-to-last — Trumbull Town Hall lecture. Louis Masur, a professor of American Studies and History at Rutgers University, will ...

“Twenty Days: a Narrative of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln,” a 1993 book by Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt and Philip B. Kunhardt Jr., also references Nichols. Leo L. Ward, president of the ...

There died in Frankfort last Sunday morning a gentleman, former Delphi resident, who was present at Ford’s theatre, Washington D.C., on that April night fifty years ago, when Wilkes Booth assassinated ...

Mounted cavalry troops lined the streets from the president-elect’s hotel to the Capitol, and sharpshooters stood on rooftops ...

It’s not yet clear whether Trump’s pardons will herald a period of national harmony – as past presidents hoped for – or more ...

In 1951, before John F. Kennedy was even a notable politician, a thriller called The Tall Target dared to ask, "what if Abraham Lincoln was saved from assassination by a guy named... John Kennedy?" ...

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 ...

(Even after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln 16 years earlier, presidents did not travel with bodyguards.) The president died of complications several weeks later. Mr. Guiteau was hanged.

Betty Gilpin is currently playing the titular character in the hit musical, which follows Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks ...