Imagine living in Syracuse on April 15, 1865 and opening that morning’s edition of the city’s Daily Courier and Union newspaper. On page one of the four-page paper, editor W.W. Green had written a ...

Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. president to be killed by an assassin's bullet. A total of four presidents have been shot and killed while in office. Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the ...

On the night President Abraham Lincoln was shot, April 14, 1865, Associated Press correspondent Lawrence Gobright scrambled to report from the White House, the streets of the stricken capital, and ...

On this day in history, April 26, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was killed when Union soldiers tracked him down to a farm in Virginia 12 days after he fatally shot the ...

President Abraham Lincoln died from a gunshot wound to the head at 7:22 a.m. on April 15, 1865.

"A special publication of The Library of America." Introduction -- Introduction of Abraham Lincoln at Cooper Union (1860) / William Cullen Bryant -- From Live of Abraham Lincoln (1860) / William Dean ...

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the Union Army in the Civil War and a future president of the United States, and David G. Farragut, the Navy’s first admiral, were among the pallbearers who ...

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play? Wednesday marks the sad anniversary of the April 14, 1865 assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, which the Associated Press covered in ...

One Hundred Fifty-Six Years Ago: It is difficult to imagine, even having lived through the last year of the Covid-19 pandemic, the manic week endured by the American people beginning on April 9, 1865.

DEAD is the roll of the drums, And the distant thunders die, They fade in the far-off sky; And a lovely summer comes, Like the smile of Him on high. Lulled the storm and the onset. Earth lies in a ...