When John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in 1865, history quickly fixed its attention on Booth himself. His dramatic actions, swift escape, and violent end made him the central ...

For America to be bereft of Lincoln’s leadership in the wake of the civil war, which had effectively ended with Robert E. Lee ...

After reaching San Francisco — the first winter automobile crossing of the US — teams discovered there was no viable route to ...

When Union forces retreated, soldiers and civilians fled together in panic, clogging roads and worsening the rout. The event ...

Not all TV shows need to run for years to tell their story right. For anybody looking to watch a one-and-done season, The Atlantic’s writers and editors answer the question: What is your favorite ...

I’ve seen more than three decades of shootings, assassinations, riots, wars and ‘thoughts and prayers’ in my time here ...

Those Mighty Men I have been going to the Tuesday noon Interfaith Protest Song Circles at 7th and Pearl for what seems like months. Our rabbi and many clergy are always present. Often, poetry, ...

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Every day is important, holding an opportunity for a new adventure, an exciting event. Each day in history holds something ...

For most of us, the Lincoln assassination lives only in history books or in television or movie adaptations of the event. But for Samuel J. Seymour (1860–1956), it was a core memory. It was a ...

A Wilkes-Barre man is accused of brutally beating a 4-month-old puppy to death, inflicting massive trauma on the dog whose corpse was later found in a trash bag dumped in a wooded area. Jeffrey Miguel ...

Grammy-nominated R&B singer John Forté has died at age 50, police said. The rapper and producer was found dead Monday afternoon, Jan. 12, in his home in Chilmark, Massachusetts, Chilmark Police Chief ...