Abraham Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theatre in Washington on the evening of April 14th, 1865, and he died the next day. Our coverage of the assassination appeared in the issue of April 29th ...

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 ...

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Images of Abraham Lincoln as he lay dying filled the popular press in the days following the assassination. The sudden and violent attack on the president came on Good Friday, the most somber day ...

Perhaps the most beloved and indisputably the greatest American president Abraham Lincoln was in many ways an enigma equally loved and hated in his lifetime What drove John Wilkes Booth to ...

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 ...

Who killed John F. Kennedy? Decades after the President’s assassination on November 22, 1963, a botched investigation clouds our conclusions about the crime.

The Connecticut Museum of Culture and History's 200th anniversary event will also feature shoes from the 1700s and a butter ...