Any trip to Washington, D.C., is bound to be busy, but this spot belongs on your itinerary for its infamous past, unique ...

Although the threat of COVID-19 (remember that?) seems to have diminished considerably over the past five years, once upon a ...

Scholars have “delighted” in the slender book, says Terry Alford, a John Wilkes Booth expert in Virginia, because it remains the only manuscript of significant length that provides insightful ...

The remains of JOHN WILKES BOOTH, the assassin, wore removed from Washington on Monday afternoon, and arrived here on the same evening. An order was obtained Monday morning, and J. C. WEAVER ...

The 160th anniversary of the assassination of President Lincoln is on April 14, and both the Ford’s Theatre Society and the ...

Arguably the nation's most famous assassin, John Wilkes Booth was an accomplished actor, southern sympathizer, and likely spy before shooting President Lincoln in April 1865. The ninth of 10 ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Though his brother John is known for killing President Lincoln, Edwin Booth was a very different man. Here’s why there’s a massive statue of him in New York ...

John Wilkes Booth was a racist murderer, but that apparently wasn’t the worst thing about him. The worst thing was that he used “the N-word.” Isn’t that a bizarre thing to say? Not too ...

It was named after an earlier theater which was named for actor Edwin Booth, who happened to be the brother of John Wilkes Booth. This intimate auditorium was intended for small dramatic plays or ...

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