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 ...

I did not want to write a book about John Wilkes, Karen Joy Fowler says in an author's note to her new novel, which is "Booth," as in John Wilkes Booth. This is a man who craved attention and has ...

(NewsNation) — “Mad Men” creator Matthew Weiner’s directorial play debut puts one of America’s most notorious killers in the spotlight. “John Wilkes Booth: One Night Only,” brought to life with the ...

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 ...

We open on the Booth family kids rehearsing Julius Caesar (a motif that runs through the play) with John Wilkes Booth already displaying narcissistic tendencies in kids’ squabbles. That changes when ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A new series transforms the assassination of ...

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 ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. April 14 marks the 160th anniversary of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Everyone is ...