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The life, times and personal agenda of one of the world's most colorful and famous assassins.

A jury had failed to convict would-be Presidential assassin John Surratt for either the assassination of Abraham Lincoln or treason.

Born in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1808 Andrew Johnson is regarded as one of the worst Presidents in American history.

New President Andrew Johnson was thrust into power and forced to find a way to unite a sharply divided country. The result, however, was his political downfall.

Before his assassination in 1901, William McKinley found a good deal of success in the office of the President, being the first incumbent since Ulysses S. Grant to win re

Andrew Johnson, who took over the Presidency after Lincoln's assassination, was born in poverty, but worked his way up quickly up the political ladder.

William McKinley, the Ohioan who would later become President, began his life in politics early, and lived much of his life in service to his country.

Dr.Samuel Mudd of Maryland, was accused of setting the broken leg of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth, of the famous acting dynasty...thus contributing to treason.

Abraham Lincoln is often called the Great Emancipator. Recent findings, however, suggest that he may not have been as interested in ending slavery as believed.

Do you need a topic for an American history essay? Here's some of the highlights of the last 250 years or so to get you started!

These men, who looked like gentlemen grandfathers during the late 1800s and early 1900s, planned and executed some of worst acts of violence during the Civil War.

In a hotly contested, close presidential election, James Blaine lost the crucial swing state of New York due to three words used days before voters went to the polls.

Veto numbers by individual presidents as well as Congressional overrides of vetoes tell much about the relationship between Congress and the President.

Fifty years of films diversely depicting the American Civil War to Reconstruction, North to South, Vivien Leigh to Elizabeth Taylor, James Stewart to Denzel Washington...