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Its my privilege to introduce the first speaker in the 2015 Abraham Lincoln Institute Symposium and he is a young scholar who has already earned an array of honors. He was at penn state and the university of maryland where he earned a masters degree and a phd. The department of history at maryland awarded him its prize in political history. Hes already in his books. Abraham lincoln published in 2011 and most recently Emancipation Union army and reelection of Abraham Lincoln both published by louisiana State University press. More than two dozen articles have appeared under his name in scholarl...

Had traveled with touring shows and was a celebrity. It is interesting to think that when booth walked down a street in the United States in 1865, he probably would be recognized by somebody. This is very different from the other assassins. There is this one image i can never resist showing. Booth John Wilkes Booth did not exit perform on stage for nearly a year before the assassination, except for one benefit performance he gave in new york of julius caesar. With his brothers. This is a photograph taken while they were preparing for this. That is john wilkes on the far left. He had shaved his...

Recognize the value of what was in this house and what a number of things including the deathbed and a number of relics in the back room. The band later was purchased by a chicago millionaire, Charles Guenther for 100,000. It is now in chicago with the Chicago Historical society. The Peterson House had an interesting history after lincoln died. It was not immediately seized upon as an Important National monument. The petersons move back in after a few days, borders came back and it became a boarding house again. Then a visionary historian, who loved Abraham Lincoln and was obsessed with honori...

There she cradles the president as other people tried to deal with the situation. Is this a mortal wound or not . There was a doctor in the theater. Dr. Leo. He releases a blood clot in the back his head. And realizes in a sense that while this eases the president sbreathing, this is a mortal wound and hes about to die. They take the present out of the theater across the street to the Peterson House where, early the next morning, he dies. Then the nation is in mourning. Its one of those times in American History where everything changes. You know the sense of incredible celebration and relief ...

Unable to reup in the theater in the aftermath of the tragedy and there was public outrage at the thought of continuing it as a theater. So they would basically be forced to sell the building to the War Department under stanton , who we have to thank otherwise the building would have been lost to history. For many years, the War Department utilized the theater as a Storage Facility for its war records. It wasnt until the latter part of the 19th century, early 20th century, that it became under the office of public buildings and grounds. When the National Park service acquire the structure, tha...