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

Lincoln Memorial University Archives / Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum ... As a regular on the Washington social circuit, Colchester met John Wilkes Booth. The stage star was living in ...

On April 15, 1865, the Civil War had just ended, the 16th U.S. president had been killed. How would Americans respond?

On April 26, 1865, Edward P. Doherty, one of the unheralded heroes of Irish American history, tracked down and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Most people will know the ...

On this day, John Wilkes Booth shot and killed President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre. The news shocked not just America but the world. “The blow is sudden, horrid, irretrievable,” wrote ...

Harold Holzer - Author, Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and Immigration ... out in Zekiah Swamp in Southern Maryland, John Wilkes Booth—famished, soaked, shivering, in agony ...

Arguably the nation's most famous assassin, John Wilkes Booth was an accomplished actor ... He was outspoken in his hatred of Abraham Lincoln, whose actions he saw as unconstitutional.

One of the turning points in history took place on April 26, 1986, when one of the reactors at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power ...

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 was 150 years ago Tuesday that President Abraham Lincoln was shot to death by John Wilkes Booth, and to mark the anniversary, The Associated Press dusted off its original report of the ...

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