1865: Otto von Bismarck is elevated to the rank of Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen. On the same day, US President Abraham Lincoln dies nine hours after being shot while ttending the play “Our American ...

Next month, history buffs will have the opportunity to bid on the gloves that President Lincoln wore on the night of his ...

Community celebrations being planned to commemorate the nation's 250th anniversary next year are at risk of being ...

The so-called “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing network that usually shuns the limelight, comprising U.S., U.K., Canadian, ...

This week in history, on April 14, 1865, upon hearing the word “sockdologizing,” President Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed by John Wilkes Booth inside Ford’s Theater in Washington, ...

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

_ This April 1865 photo provided by the Library of Congress shows President Abraham Lincoln’s box at Ford’s Theater, ...

Booth, suffering severe pain, arrived at the house of Samuel Mudd, a physician and fellow Southern sympathizer he knew who ...

A pair of gloves carried by President Lincoln on the night he was shot could sell for over $1 million. Read about the Chicago ...

34.The Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 was the deadliest earthquake in US history, resulting in the deaths of over ...

Tyler Goodrich’s death has been ruled a suicide by hanging ... Goodrich’s name and face have become known all over Lincoln. Strangers set up search parties, and family and friends hosted ...