Artifacts Dixie's Land: Original Handwritten Composition Richmond, Virginia Lincoln's Top Hat Washington, DC Flag Torn by John Wilkes Booth Washington, DC More >>>
In “The Residue of Assassination,” a Postscripts item in our April/May, 1980, issue, we reported that a top hat auctioned off by the firm of Sotheby Parke Bernet in November, 1979, was the on More >>>
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' unique chemistry made them one of the most iconic duos of Hollywood's Golden Age. More >>>
A stereo view discovered in a California flea market may show the President-elect embarked on a momentous journey More >>>
He ignored the conventions of his day and became one of the greatest American sculptors of this century More >>>
Had there been a Warren Commission exactly a century ago, when Abraham Lincoln was shot, its report might have read like the somber, moving, and impressively researched book from which the following narrative is taken. More >>>
Would the great fighter come over for the Union? Italian freedom and lead troops Lincoln hoped so More >>>
“The President came forward and the sun burst through the clouds.” More >>>
In the autumn of 1885, around harvest time, when a granger was likely to have sold his wheat, a man in a slouch hat, wearing the Grand Army badge, appeared on the piazza of almost every American ho More >>>
A major new installation at the Smithsonian Institution explores the nation’s biggest and most important job More >>>