Just days after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre. As a fractured nation mourned, a manhunt closed in on his assassin, the 26-year-old actor ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln remains a tragic historical figure, gunned down by an assassin just days after winning the nation's bloodiest war. A Republican ...

A member of a famous acting family, and a fierce partisan of the Confederacy, Booth was the subject of a 12-day manhunt through Maryland and Virginia after he shot Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre.

we know more or less minute by minute what happened during the assassination. When Kennedy was assassinated it was all captured on film — we don’t have tape itself [for Lincoln], but we have ...

In this lesson, students interrogate their own assumptions about Abraham Lincoln in order to arrive at a deeper understanding of who Lincoln was. They investigate primary source documents in order ...

Abraham Lincoln’s assassination is probably in the top five of American historical events that is universally known about: ...

Most people know the high-level details about Lincoln's assassination ... Jr. had already spearheaded a concise PBS documentary series a few years ago. Instead, Beletsky worked backward from ...

Lincoln had struggled to heal the wounds of war, yet he became one of its last victims, and the war left the country no less divided. Abraham Lincoln grew up on the American frontier. Born in a ...