On April 15, 1865, the Civil War had just ended, the 16th U.S. president had been killed. How would Americans respond?

_ This April 1865 photo provided by the Library of Congress shows President Abraham Lincoln’s box at Ford’s Theater, ...

“Lincoln’s murder shocked the nation just as the Civil War was coming to an end,” said Susannah J. Ural, the Frank and Virginia Williams Chair for Abraham Lincoln and Civil War Studies and ...

Armistice Day in 1930 brought a massive crowd to downtown Spokane to see the unveiling of the Abraham Lincoln statue at ... of Union soldiers from the Civil War, while some were still alive.