The assassination ... Abraham Lincoln a week later, when the train carrying his casket stopped for a brief visit on its way to Springfield, Illinois. This feature is a part of CNY Nostalgia, a ...

Every April 14, on the hour of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the place where it happened is one of the loneliest historical sites in America. I should know. I’ve been making ...

One hundred sixty years ago this week, the nation was in mourning following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. On April 21, 1865, the president’s body began its journey from the capital to ...

Did John Wilkes Booth, the infamous assassin of Abraham Lincoln, spend time in this house? And is this where the assassination was planned? The History Detectives are on the case.

This is Old News, our weekly procession through the past. The timeline: John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre on April 14; he died the next morning. Western newspapers learned ...

These events range from the assassination ... that happened during the week of April 15-21. Shortly after the end of the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head by ...

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 ...