More Photos Click thumbnails to enlarge George Washington Dumb Stove designed by Alonzo Blanchard 1843 made of cast iron in the George Washington exhibit Sunday, February 19, 2012 at Albany Institute of History and Art in Albany. (J.S. Carras / The Recor

If you didn't watch the earlier trailer for Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, you missed Honest Abe swing a mean axe, but as President's Day approaches tomorrow, viewers get the same view of Honest Abe, but with a voiceover from his mentor that would spur

(Drama) 122 Minutes In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the president, vice president, and secretary of state. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, owns a boarding hous

Abraham Lincoln echoes in pop culture in surprising ways -- and, according to guest essayist Christopher Farnsworth, he might be viewed as America's first superhero. Director Timur Bekmambetov and actor Benjamin Walker deliver "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire H

ATTLEBORO - When John Wilkes Booth fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, it plunged a war-weary nation even deeper into sorrow. It also touched off a national mania for everything Lincoln, especially mementoes associated with the Grea

In writing the Bingham biography, the tragedy that brought Andrew Johnson to the White House looms large, partly because of Bingham’s role in the Lincoln conspiracy trial and partly because of Johnson’s opposition to the Fourteenth Amendment. Lots of peo

Image: Ford's Theatre Center for Education and Leadership in Washington on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012. The new museum, located across from Ford's Theatre and next door to the house where Lincoln died, will open in time for President's Day.

This book (which really has no title -- the editor, Terry Alford, supplied one) is the best guide to the inner life of John Wilkes Booth, yet was only published in 1938! Asia's family discovered the manuscript in 1888, realized a sympathetic portrayal of

NIAGARA 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 int

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes. BBC Central Casting, run by hack writers from the 80's My, they are piddlin' little boats aren't they? Surely that's not the best Iran can muster... are

Talk about historical fiction. Fox has released the first atmospheric, action-packed trailer for its "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter," a 3-D summer spectacle film starring relative newcomer Benjamin Walker as a very different incarnation of our venerabl

Couple of thoughts about the chapter that I just finished about Bingham’s prosecution of John Wilkes Booth’s co-conspirators (including Mary Surratt). The obvious irony in this case is that the great civil libertarian argued for a military trial and reje

Born on Feb. 12, 1809, in a log cabin in backwoods Hardin co. , Ky. His father, Thomas Lincoln, was a migratory carpenter and farmer, nearly always poverty-stricken. Little is know

For 32 years, a portrait of a serene Mary Todd Lincoln hung in the governor's mansion in Springfield, Ill. , signed by Francis Bicknell Carpenter, a celebrated painter who lived at the White House for six months in 1864. The story behind the picture was c

The con, however, dates to the late 1920s, when the portrait was recast as that of Mary Todd Lincoln, he said. For 32 years, a portra

For 32 years, a portrait of a serene Mary Todd Lincoln hung in the governor's mansion in Springfield, Ill. , signed by Francis Bicknell Carpenter, a celebrated painter who lived at the White House for six months in 1864. The story behind the picture was c

Two members of The Surratt Society have made a stunning announcement: Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, may have indeed died by his own hand. 1. Francis Wilson, John Wilkes Booth: Fact and Fiction of Lincoln’s Assassination (Boston: Houghton

Two members of The Surratt Society have made a startling announcement: Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, may have indeed died by his own hand. But, all this is debatable theory. The question remains: was Booth physically able to have committ

Two members of The Surratt Society have made a stunning announcement: Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, may have indeed died by his own hand. It is a familiar story told repeatedly by historians. Early on the morning of April 26, 1865, noted