A pair of balcony tickets to Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865 — the night Abraham Lincoln was assassinated — has sold at auction for $262,500.

Since Ford’s Theater reopened as an active theater in 1968, it has rarely been the scene of a dramatic re-enactment of Abraham Lincoln being shot to death there on April 14, 1865. “Manhunt ...

FPG/ Archive Photos via Getty Images Vice President Andrew Johnson became President upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. On April 26, Booth was tracked down to a barn where he was hiding.

More than 1,000 high-resolution photos connected to Abraham Lincoln are now available online through an initiative by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. Most of the photos in ...

On the night Lincoln died, he dressed for the theater in a silk top hat, size 7-1/8, from the Washington hatmaker J. Y. Davis, to which he had added a black silk mourning band in memory of his son ...