Five months ago, Ford’s Theatre Society and National Park Service staff honored the memory of Abraham Lincoln and marked 150 years since his untimely death. Ford’s 150 was a behemoth – a once-in-a-lifetime occasion that necessitated planning with Civil War enthusiasts, scholars, museums, group tour operators, performance artists, generous donors, media outlets and more. 

The deringer pistol that John Wilkes Booth used to assassinate Abraham Lincoln is one of the most memorable artifacts in the Ford’s Theatre Museum.

As we say goodbye to the landmark exhibition commemorating the 150th anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination, we are also looking back on the monumental amount of work that went into making an exhibition of this scale.

In this post, elementary school teacher Colin Sinko and Ford’s Lead Teaching Artist Thembi Duncan, one of the hosts of a Ford's Virtual Field Trip, discuss Sinko's experience working with the Ford’s Education Team.

We spoke with Washington, D.C., security guard Kevin Gray, who worked in Silent Witnesses, about what it’s like to watch over Lincoln’s belongings, 150 years later.

The subject of this month’s museum feature, the Lincoln Flag from Pike County Historical Society in Milford, Pennsylvania, gives us an opportunity to learn more about a family of actors onstage the evening of the Lincoln assassination and their role in the preservation of the flag.

One of our partners for the Remembering Lincoln digital collection is the Newseum. In the below post, learn more about The New York Herald editions now on display at the Newseum and what’s remarkable about each of them.

On April 14 and 15, 2015, the streets of Washington, D.C., were filled with thousands of people paying tribute to Abraham Lincoln and his legacy. Learn all about our 36 hours of continuous programming on the Ford’s campus that marked the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's assassination and death.

Playwright Richard Hellesen, co-adapter of Freedom’s Song: Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, recently sat down with us to discuss what it was like to develop a new script for the Frank Wildhorn, Gregory Boyd and Jack Murphy musical. 

In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, Ford’s Theatre has reunited an extraordinary collection of artifacts that were in the Theatre on the night of his assassination. Lincoln’s cufflink returns to Tenth Street with a fascinating story of its own, which begins after the tragedy of Lincoln’s assassination.