Booth, suffering severe pain, arrived at the house of Samuel Mudd, a physician and fellow Southern sympathizer he knew who lived 25 miles south of Washington near Waldorf, Maryland. After Mudd set his ...

Karen Stone of Fredericksburg has written a book about the Black Diamond disaster, a forgotten tragedy on the Potomac River ...

Have you ever seen a bunch of coins on a headstone and wondered why they were there? They weren’t placed there by ...

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

Those involved in unleashed political fighting today should learn from this end-of-war, Easter season moment from York ...

More specifically, one of John Wilkes Booth’s conspirators is buried right ... the skull was buried in the Geneva Cemetery near the grave of his mother, Patience Caroline Powell,” according ...

John Wilkes Booth was also in the Star Saloon ... After that night Burke faded into obscurity and is buried in an unmarked grave in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Washington, D.C. Forbes was never ...

Jeopardy!” disrespected the legacy of one of America’s most iconic women by airing a segment April 14 that depicted a ...

His investigations lead him to a waterfront dive and its grave-robbing habitués and ultimately to ... Yancy is arrested on a charge of high treason. His crime: selling John Wilkes Booth the gun that ...