More than one American historian has described the Civil War as the conflict that turned brother against brother. Among the more notable of those warring siblings were the actors Edwin Booth and his ...
When the curtain rises on the world premiere at Baltimore Center Stage, an actor portraying the Harford County native and presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth spreads his coattails, sits down on a ...
“We spent too much time paying attention to our heroes and not enough time paying attention to our villains,” Weiner says. - (André Chung/For The Washington Post) Ask any historian: Writing about any ...
PORT ROYAL, Va. — Twelve days after President Lincoln's historic 1865 visit to Richmond, his assassin's journey ended in the small town of Port Royal, Virginia. At the end of the Civil War, President ...
Ask any historian: Writing about any legendary figure is hard. Writing about a killer is harder. Matthew Weiner has spent the past decade obsessed with Abraham Lincoln’s assassin. “I am fascinated by ...
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