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Phil Edwards was a senior producer for the Vox video team. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln is widely accepted today as an American tragedy. But it wasn’t always that way. When the news of ...
A carefully planned conspiracy made Lincoln one of the final casualties of the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln’s Illinois death certificate is heading to the online auction block for the cool sum of $425,000.
The blood-stained leather gloves that were in Lincoln’s pocket the night he was assassinated were among the 144 items up for bid, 136 of which sold.
Two front-row balcony tickets from the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth inside Ford's Theatre have been sold at auction for a cool $262,500.
When Abraham Lincoln died in 1865, felled by an assassin’s bullet at the end of the Civil War, he left behind a considerable legacy. But Lincoln did not leave behind many descendants. In 1985, the ...
Lincoln's assassination artifacts, including gloves and a "wanted" poster, fetched high bids at an auction to repay a loan by the Lincoln Presidential Foundation.
The bloodstained leather gloves that were in Lincoln’s pocket the night he was assassinated were among the 144 items up for bid, 136 of which sold.
The theater says that allowing the assassination to be recreated there would undermine the gravity and significance of Abraham Lincoln’s death.
Apple TV+'s "Manhunt," about the search for John Wilkes Booth after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, is a shockingly wild ride.
"Manhunt" chronicles Abraham Lincoln's infamous assassination through the eyes of an unlikely protagonist, secretary of war Edwin Stanton ...