Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. Booth was part of a nine-person conspiracy that also ...
Treasured artifacts associated with President Abraham Lincoln were on the auction block Wednesday, separated from a collection that was intended to be available for public display forever but wound up ...
Kate Warne became the nation’s first female detective when she began working for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in ...
“Abraham Lincoln died this morning at 22 minutes after seven.” Ten words that changed the course of history. It was written on a telegram on April 15, 1865 — the morning after Lincoln was shot by John ...
April 15 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1817, the oldest, permanent U.S. public school for the deaf, Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons (now the ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Treasured artifacts associated with President Abraham Lincoln were on the auction block Wednesday, separated from a collection that was intended to be available for public ...