One hundred sixty years ago tonight, at Ford’s Theater, John Wilkes Booth put a bullet ... his father Junius and brother Edwin, Booth earned reviews any young actor would die for.

Plays about Maryland actor and assassin John Wilkes Booth, monstrous creatures, and mental health will all come to Baltimore ...

Robert Wadlow, the tallest man in history, played at W.J. Reeder & Son's shoe repair shop in Upper Alton as a child.

Abraham Lincoln's funeral train traveled through Ohio, including Champaign County, in late April 1865, making stops at many small towns on its way to Springfield, Illinois.

It’s the spring of 1873 in the Wyoming Territory, and U.S. Marshal Tim Colter and his grizzled mentor and best friend, ...

Lincoln was assassinated April 14, 1865, by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth during a play at Ford ... sang “Go to Thy Rest.” Ten young ladies entered the funeral car and strewed ...

John Wilkes Booth Booth alone did the deed ... white and black, old and young, male and female.” The New York Times thought that so many had come to Chicago from “neighboring cities and ...

Then, just a 28-year-old serving in the Illinois House of Representatives, Lincoln gave a speech before the Young Men’s Lyceum ... s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, a middling stage actor and ...

At one point she was learning about Abraham Lincoln. Great man, but perhaps the bit about John Wilkes Booth was too much for her young brain. She immediately pointed out “the shottin’ guy ...

He dreamed of a better future and of no longer sending young men to war ... in the Star Saloon next door to Ford’s Theatre. John Wilkes Booth was also in the Star Saloon, plucking up Dutch ...