The Rothschilds’ Waddesdon Manor: Not Your Typical English Country House It was on the night of Good Friday, April 14, 1865, that John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln. Earlier that day ...
President-elect Trump will use a Bible that was given to him by his mother, as well as the Lincoln Bible, for his swearing-in ...
His youngest son, Tad Lincoln, died in 1871. Lincoln suffered from “melancholia,” the nineteenth-century term for clinical depression. He would enter such bouts that would last for weeks on end.
Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln are mammoth, yet simple to describe: he confronted the secession of the South and the dissolution of the Union with all the political ...