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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· 7 days agoUnion troops hunted down John Wilkes Booth, the Confederate sympathizer who shot President Abe ...
On this day in history, April 26, 1865, John Wilkes Booth is killed by Union troops for murdering ...
AOL· 7 days agoOn this day in history, April 26, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was killed when Union soldiers tracked him down to a farm ...
Film Critic Harlan Jacobson reviews 'Civil War'
WBGO-FM Newark· 6 days agoDD: In ALEX GARLAND’S new film, CIVIL WAR, we are dropped not exactly into the middle of a new American civil war, ...
How Boston Embraced The Brothers of John Wilkes Booth Following Lincoln's Assassination - Our...
iHeartRadio· 17 hours agoOn this episode of Our American Stories, 26-year-old actor John Wilkes Booth was killed just 12 days after assassinating Abraham Lincoln. Here’s Christopher ...
Democracy under construction and under attack at the same time - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe· 5 days agoAbraham Lincoln is so familiar to Americans that it takes a special book to let us see him in a new...
Detroit's Civil War history, uncovered - WDET 101.9 FM
WDET-FM Detroit· 6 days agoIn 1863, as the Civil War raged on, then-President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Emancipation...
What is Juneteenth? The history and meaning behind the federal holiday
TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 days agoJune 19, 1865, federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas and informed 250,000 enslaved people...
26 Facts That Just Seem Like There Is Absolutely No Way That They're True
BuzzFeed via Yahoo News· 6 days agoBettmann / Getty Images, Heritage Images / NASA/Heritage Images via Getty Images 20."President Joe...
"The Demon of Unrest": Recounting the first shots of the Civil War
CBS News· 4 days ago"South Carolina saw it as an affront to their sense of honor," said writer Erik Larson. Larson wrote...
Illinois quick hits: More students protesting; Pritzkers donate Civil War document
The Center Square· 2 days agoIllinois State University in Normal is the latest school to feature an encampment to protest the war...