John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln. Most Americans know that much history. But the true story goes deeper than one man firing one bullet. When Monica Beletsky learned the assassination ...

President Andrew Johnson, having assumed the presidency after Lincoln’s assassination ... over” the South “three or four times before the war entirely ended.” The anomalies multiplied.

He recalled President Abraham Lincoln’s speech and the events leading up to the American Civil War. "1860, this country was in big jeopardy. It was splitting apart. A house divided. Slavery or ...

but rather Lincoln’s second inaugural address. Delivered after his unexpected reelection and shortly before the end of the Civil War, it is universally regarded as one of the most important ...