FALLS — Happy Birthday, President Lincoln. Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard have a present for you, “Killing Lincoln,” a dead-serious but sometimes fanciful account of your last days, and those of your assassin, John Wilkes Booth. A humble and...

Know any good filters for C-131? I-133? I Suppose you think we can afford the debt we have now. Nope, never did. I just think us getting into another war, just real fucking stupid. this will not end well especially if one of the patrol boats is named...

Hunter” in just four months. The book recounts roughly 45 years of Lincoln’s life, from about 1820 to 1865, tracing his evolution from a poor young man devastated by the loss of his mother, up through his burgeoning interest in politics, his presidency...

The obvious irony in this case is that the great civil libertarian argued for a military trial and rejected the application of the Bill of Rights to the defendants. Here’s the more subtle point, though. But for the fame that Bingham achieved in this...

He lived to see the end of the war, but he was to have no chance to implement his plans for Reconstruction. On the night of Apr. 14, 1865, when attending a performance at Ford's Theater, he was shot by the actor John Wilkes Booth. The next morning...

Carpenter while he was at the White House working on his 15-by-9-foot painting, "The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation," which hangs in the Capitol. She had planned a party, he said, where she would give the portrait as a surprise to her...