Twelve days after President Lincoln's historic visit to Richmond, his assassin's journey ended in the small town of Port ...

Booth, suffering severe pain, arrived at the house of Samuel Mudd, a physician and fellow Southern sympathizer he knew who lived 25 miles south of Washington near Waldorf, Maryland. After Mudd set his ...

Scholars have “delighted” in the slender book, says Terry Alford, a John Wilkes Booth ... Unable to focus, Booth had left the project to his sister. With the family name destroyed, Asia ...

Arguably the nation's most famous assassin, John Wilkes Booth was an accomplished actor, southern sympathizer, and likely spy before shooting President Lincoln in April 1865. The ninth of 10 ...