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“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.
Henry W. Bishop II and David Davis, two lawyers who came from Lenox, were friends and colleagues of Abraham Lincoln and received federal court appointments ...
The two greatest presidents died in April, 80 years apart, one 80 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, 56, was slain while enjoying a comedy at Ford’s Theatre. After 12 years of a crisis presidency, Franklin ...
While disaster can strike at any time, an unusual amount of tragic events seem to take place on a few inauspicious days in mid-April.
_ This April 1865 photo provided by the Library of Congress shows President Abraham Lincoln’s box at Ford’s Theater, ...
The president’s iconic beard was a product of the anxious new realities of the photographic age.
While disaster can strike at any time, an unusual number of tragic events seem to take place on a few inauspicious days in April. Eerie coincidence?
Richland County has an interesting link to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln -- and the death of his killer, John Wilkes Booth.
Booth, suffering severe pain, arrived at the house of Samuel Mudd, a physician and fellow Southern sympathizer he knew who ...
In the Christian tradition, Easter is the incarnation of that hope, in the witness of the life, death and resurrection of ...
We're approaching a day that still lives in infamy 160 years later. This April 14 will be eight score years since the ...