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 ...

The childhood home of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, and his family of well-known Shakespearean actors has been designated a Harford County Historic Landmark for its ...

Abraham Lincoln died 160 years ago today at Ford’s Theater, cut down by the rabidly pro-slavery actor named John Wilkes Booth ... was beloved by the Lincoln family, and was one of the very ...

John Wilkes Booth cunningly shot Lincoln during a laugh ... he founded the Civilian Conservation Corps — as an avid tree planter himself — and the Works Progress Administration.

Have you ever seen a bunch of coins on a headstone and wondered why they were there? They weren’t placed there by ...

Wilkes Booth as the assassin of the President ... and other surgeons sent for to attend his condition. John Wilkes BoothReuters “On the examination of the private box blood was discovered ...

Such voters, Lincoln said, “would probably help, in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel of liberty within the family of freedom ... he ever gave; John Wilkes Booth, listening ...

John Wilkes Booth cunningly shot Lincoln during a laugh line so the packed ... Determined to put people back to work that mattered, he founded the Civilian Conservation Corps — as an avid tree planter ...