Surratt, David Herold, George Atzerodt and Paine were hanged ... In the excerpt that follows, Buckley covers the Washington of Abraham Lincoln: On the 137th anniversary of the day Mr. Lincoln ...

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

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

Next month, history buffs will have the opportunity to bid on the gloves that President Lincoln wore on the night of his ...

Abraham Lincoln was our ... On the night Lincoln died, he dressed for the theater in a silk top hat, size 7-1/8, from the Washington hatmaker J. Y. Davis, to which he had added a black silk ...

A pair of blood-stained white kid-leather gloves carried by the president during the night of his assassination on April 14, ...