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On this day in history, April 26, 1865, John Wilkes Booth is killed by Union troops for murdering...
Fox News via Yahoo News· 15 hours agoUnion troops hunted down John Wilkes Booth, the Confederate sympathizer who shot President Abe...
26 Facts That Just Seem Like There Is Absolutely No Way That They're True
BuzzFeed via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoI love surprising/interesting facts, so much so that I've written many, many facts posts during my...
Abraham Lincoln's speech at Dayton's Old Courthouse: Did he get 'utmost attention' or was he 'not a...
Dayton Daily News, Ohio via Yahoo News· 15 hours agoApr. 25—Before he was elected president, Abraham Lincoln visited the Montgomery County Courthouse in 1859. Lincoln, who had lost a bid for the U.S. Senate ...
Today in History
The Ponca City News· 9 hours agoToday is the 117th day of 2024 and the 39th day of spring. TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1865, John Wilkes Booth, President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, was killed by Union troops in Virginia.
Convention of Abraham Lincoln presenters in Dayton this week
Dayton Daily News· 4 days agoOn Sept. 17, 1859, Lincoln, who wouldn’t be elected until the year after, made an appearance in...
Lynx claim city tennis crown
Southwest Iowa's daily newspaper· 3 days agoAbraham Lincoln boys tennis claimed the city title after sweeping the No. 1 brackets and taking first in two other singles brackets. “It’s been a couple...
Viola Davis And Husband Team Up To Launch Inclusion-Focused Book Publishing Company That Tells...
Black Enterprise· 3 days agoViola Davis and her husband, Julius Tennon, partnered with author/publisher Lavaille Lavette to...
Doris Kearns Goodwin and husband Dick Goodwin lived, observed, created and chronicled the 1960s
Los Angeles Times· 2 days ago“An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s” isn’t precisely the book that...
R.A. Long graduate nominated for prestigious theater award
The Daily News· 2 hours agoEscola was nominated for Distinguished Performance in “Oh, Mary!”, a dark comedy written by Escola, who plays a miserable, suffocated Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to Abraham ...
Today in History: Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster
Chicago Tribune· 10 hours agoIn 1607, English colonists went ashore at present-day Cape Henry, Virginia, on an expedition to establish the first permanent English settlement in the Western Hemisphere. In 1865, John Wilkes ...