When John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in 1865, history quickly fixed its attention on Booth himself.

Organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, the entertaining exhibition traces the history of “MAD” from its humor comic book roots to its status as a mainstream force in ...

Samuel J. Seymour was just five years old when he sat in the balcony at Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865 and heard the ...

It is no great wonder if in the long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur.” — Plutarch “I’ve been looking for you my ...

Whether an assassin wants to silence someone over mysterious secrets, act for a cause, or eliminate a rival, the concept ...

I visited the Lincoln Memorial last weekend. The colossal 19-foot statue of Abraham Lincoln loomed above me, looking towards ...

Trump issued several clemencies during the first year of his second term, many targeted at criminal cases federal prosecutors ...

WASHINGTON — John Forté, the Grammy-nominated musician whose work with the Fugees and the Refugee Camp All-Stars helped shape one of hip-hop’s most influential eras, has died. He was 50. Forté was ...