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

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

Secretary of State William Seward was attacked but ultimately survived. Image via Utah Digital Newspapers, the University of ...

Moorhead High School students read from a diary written by Smith Stimmel, a Fargo man who served as one of President ...

A pair of gloves carried by President Lincoln on the night he was shot could sell for over $1 million. Read about the Chicago ...

US President Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head by stage actor John Wilkes Booth while attending a play at Ford’s Theatre ...

A licensed embalmer Lee Eutsey shared his findings about the surgeons who conducted Lincoln's autopsy and the mystery of the ...

This week in history, on April 14, 1865, upon hearing the word “sockdologizing,” President Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed by John Wilkes Booth inside Ford’s Theater in Washington, ...

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

Richland County has an interesting link to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln -- and the death of his killer, John Wilkes Booth.

STARKVILLE, Miss.—With the country on the cusp of healing after the Civil War, the sudden assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865 stands as one of the most significant and haunting events in American ...