Lincoln’s Assassination (Edward Steers, JR. - LL) ecw by James Rada

by James Rada

many of them never before published

In meticulous close-up fashion

and the causes and effects of the American Civil War

Schaus goes a long way toward rectifying this oversight

Lincoln’s Assassination (Edward Steers, JR. - LL) ecw by James RadaFor 150 years, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln has fascinated the American people. Relatively few academic historians, however, have devoted study to it, viewing the murder as a side note tied to neither the Civil War nor Reconstruction. Over time, the traditional story of the assassination has become littered with myths, from the innocence of Mary Surratt and Samuel Mudd to John Wilkes Booths escape to Oklahoma or India, where he died by suicide