The Assassination of Lincoln

Eleven years after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, a band of Chicago counterfeiters plotted to steal his body and hold it for ransom, setting in motion a cringe-inducing chain of events.

It was the largest manhunt in history: 10,000 federal troops, detectives, and police untangling a vast conspiracy to track down the man responsible for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

John Wilkes Booth, "the handsomest man in America," was the epitome of success: a famous, wealthy, wildly popular stage actor. Yet, in April 1865, Booth put a bullet through Abraham Lincoln's head.

A look at the Civil War's final days, which forever changed the war's end and the nation's new beginning.

Historians, biographers, and researchers explore, defend, and debunk the conspiracies surrounding John Wilkes Booth's assassination of President Lincoln in 1865.

Uncover the events, myths, and misconceptions leading up to Lincoln's assassination, untangle its myths and misconceptions, and explore the emotional state of the country that precipitated such an act of violence.

Scholars and historians examine how our country's most beloved president became so mythologized.

Director Vikram Jayanti explores Abraham Lincoln's remarkable rise from humble beginnings to the highest office in the land.

Outspoken historian David Eisenbach delves into Lincoln's private life and reveals that the Great Emancipator was a racist, had trouble with women, and actually enjoyed sleeping with men.