I can't fail because I wanted to be the first female Brutus,'" she said. First African American Brutus: Keith Burkes In 1973, the first African-American Brutus took center stage. Keith Burkes had ...

He spent 30 years writing the acclaimed Booth biography, "American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies," published in 2004. He continues to cultivate his own vast database of ...

Brother Edwin Booth played Brutus, the Roman for whom his father was named. John Wilkes Booth, who six months later would become what historian Michael W. Kauffman calls the real-life American ...

It was a defining moment in American history: the 1865 assassination of Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater as his assassin, John Wilkes Booth, leapt to the stage with his fateful cry. Yet ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! a short description of Anti-federalist writer Brutus Jack Rakove, an American historian, author, and professor at Standford University and Gordon ...

The filmmakers do touch on how immediately the beatification of Lincoln began in April 1865 and how shocked Booth was that he wasn't hailed as an "American Brutus" for slaying the "tyrant." ...

Kauffman’s American Brutus (2004) and Edward Steers Jr.’s Blood on the Moon (2001), landmark studies of the crime itself. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, by Mary Beard A new look at an ...

Fun fact: The first female to wear the Brutus costume was Sandy Foreman in 1977 and the first African American to wear Brutus was Keith Burkes in 1973. 2. He sees out of his mouth Those who wear ...