Contributing to this volume are some of the finest scholars specializing in Lincoln’s assassination. All have earned well-deserved reputations for the quality of their research, their originality, and their writing.
At virtually the same moment, young Henry Safford, a tenant in William Petersen's house across from Ford's Theatre on Tenth Street (Figure 1), heard noises from the street, opened his window and shouted, ''What's the matter?
"A bonanza of penetrating, insightful and thoughtful essays on multiple aspects of Lincoln's assassination that will be warmly welcomed by scholars and amateurs alike."---Anthony S. Pitch, author of "They Have Killed Papa Dead!
Here is the full story of the plot, the bumbling plotters that Booth recruited, Lincoln's lingering death, the manhunt for the assassin, and the trial of the conspirators.
By presenting an annotated and indexed transcription of these documents, this volume offers significant new access to information on the events surrounding the assassination and a vast new store of social and political history of the Civil ...
I hadn't even started the series without noticing I used the word gray when I could have used "blue" line...so much with trying to hide my feelings, right? This novel will present the facts in the most truthful manner as possible.
Abraham Lincoln's assassination, perhaps our county's most significant andpivotal crime spawned many mysteries.That evening at Ford's Theatre flags were used to decorate the box where President Lincoln and guests including...
You tell me David Herold with the mind of an eleven year old should have died on the gallows! This novel, as well as the next three in the series, will take the reader through the capture and killing of John Wilkes Booth.
Written at the end of the Lincoln bicentennial year, and the onset of the Civil War sesquicentennial, this book offers studies and arguments about the assassination, its aftermath, the extraordinary public reaction (which was more complex ...
Written at the end of the Lincoln bicentennial year, and the onset of the Civil War sesquicentennial, this book offers studies and arguments about the assassination, its aftermath, the extraordinary public reaction (which was more complex ...
Here is the full story of the plot, the bumbling plotters that Booth recruited, Lincoln's lingering death, the manhunt for the assassin, and the trial of the conspirators.