
A 34ft Tribute: The Lincoln Book Tower
From The BlogThe Ford’s Theatre Center for Education and Leadership features a winding staircase and 34-foot tower of books about Abraham Lincoln, symbolizing that…
An update from Director Paul R. Tetreault on the events at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
S. S. Elder, a welder in Springfield, Illinois, knew he was going to be a part of history when he was asked to seal the coffin of President Abraham Lincoln. See the tools he preserved for posterity from that important job.
For seven weeks in summer 1865, the country’s attention was fixed on a small courtroom in Washington, where eight of John Wilkes Booth’s accused co-conspirators were on trial for their lives. See memorabilia from that trial, including fragments of rope believed to be from four conspirators’ nooses.
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