Abraham Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theatre in Washington on the evening of April 14th, 1865, and he died the next day. Our coverage of the assassination appeared in the issue of April 29th ...
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 ...
The opera glasses, since engraved, were supposedly those used by Mary Todd Lincoln on the night of her husband Abraham Lincoln's assassination A pair of opera glasses reportedly used by former US ...