Abraham Lincoln said goodbye to his friend for the last time as they left the meeting that afternoon. It was Friday, April 14 ...

On April 15, 1861, after Fort Sumter fell to Confederate Army forces, Pres. Abraham Lincoln issued his call to arms for ...

There died in Frankfort last Sunday morning a gentleman, former Delphi resident, who was present at Ford’s theatre, Washington D.C., on that April night fifty years ago, when Wilkes Booth assassinated ...

The southern widow's Maryland house was a crucial stop on the escape route for assassin John Wilkes Booth the night he shot the president. Read more about Abraham ...

Mounted cavalry troops lined the streets from the president-elect’s hotel to the Capitol, and sharpshooters stood on rooftops ...

“Twenty Days: a Narrative of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln,” a 1993 book by Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt and Philip B. Kunhardt Jr., also references Nichols. Leo L. Ward, president of the ...

In 1951, before John F. Kennedy was even a notable politician, a thriller called The Tall Target dared to ask, "what if Abraham Lincoln was saved from assassination by a guy named... John Kennedy?" ...

Presidents Day offers a valuable opportunity to revisit Abraham Lincoln’s leadership ... among ourselves and with all nations.” Lincoln was assassinated 40 days later. While the Civil War ...

Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War will be the topic of the next — and next-to-last — Trumbull Town Hall lecture. Louis Masur, a professor of American Studies and History at Rutgers University, will ...