Today: September 16, 2024
Today: September 16, 2024

American History

Entertainment|News

Rare tickets to Ford’s Theatre on the night Lincoln was assassinated auction for $262,500

A pair of front-row balcony tickets to Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865 — the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth — has sold at auction for $262,500

Rare tickets to Ford’s Theatre on the night Lincoln was assassinated auction for $262,500
Entertainment|News

Boston Tea Party turns 250 years old with reenactments of the revolutionary protest

Patriotic mobs and harbor tea-dumping has returned to Boston

Boston Tea Party turns 250 years old with reenactments of the revolutionary protest
Political

Even the Supreme Court’s conservative justices are polarized about the state of American politics

The secret recordings of two Supreme Court justices reveal dramatic differences in how they see American political life.

Even the Supreme Court’s conservative justices are polarized about the state of American politics
Arts|Opinion

What was the 'first American novel'? On this Independence Day, a look at what it started

Critics have long debated which books qualify as a ‘Great American Novel

What was the 'first American novel'? On this Independence Day, a look at what it started
Opinion|Political

Lincoln called for divided Americans to heed their ‘better angels,’ and politicians have invoked him ever since in crises − but for Abe, it was more than words

Keeping the United States together meant more than defeating the Confederacy. Lincoln first had to unite a fractured North.

Lincoln called for divided Americans to heed their ‘better angels,’ and politicians have invoked him ever since in crises − but for Abe, it was more than words

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