We explore the closing days of the Civil War, when the victorious president Abraham Lincoln was struck down by the famous actor John Wilkes Booth. We trace the failed conspiracy that did in the president, the desperate manhunt to find the killer, and the insane man who eventually killed him – Boston Corbett.
Along the banks of the Shenandoah River, in the beautiful Page Valley near Luray, Virginia,…
One of Amsterdam's famous canals Nieuwe Kerk, on Amsterdam's central square, was built in the…
A tall and bronzed militia captain named Andrew Pickens led his scouts steadily forward to…
There are few young ladies today who relish getting up at 5 AM. Even fewer…
Painting of a Dutch Woman from this period by Rembrandt Two years ago I wrote…
This is the start of a series of post from a second research trip to…