This is a guest post by Angela Harrison Eng. I’ve been to D.C.’s Chinatown a number of times. I even remember passing the Wok and Roll restaurant at 604 H Street NW. The restaurant name certainly stands...
April 14, 1865 at Ford's Theater began with a showing of Our American Cousin, and ended with an assassinated President Lincoln. The Library of Congress has the program from that evening. Pretty incredible to think that...
The Library of Congress has a large collection of graphic arts created over the course of two centuries. They depict famous locations and subjects. There are a large number dedicated to capturing the assassination and aftermath...
This week celebrates the 152nd anniversary of the D.C. Emancipation Act, which ended slavery in the District of Columbia and came eight months before President Abraham Lincoln wrote and delivered the Emancipation Proclamation. It ultimately freed...
This photo was taken on March 4th, 1865 on the day Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated for a second time. A little over a month later, President Lincoln would be assassinated in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes...
We woke up this morning to a great email from a GoDCer. It's a rather interesting story, so we'd like to share it with the community. Since today is Abraham...
Wow, what else can I say about this one. Thanks to the abundance of random stuff on Reddit, I stumbled across this the other day. How amazing is it? This almost looks like it was taken...
We've heard from quite a few of you that Ghosts of DC is a regular morning read. And, given that we come across so much great content, we're going to compile a brief post on occasion...
Walking through the Navy Yard a few weeks ago, I stumbled upon an incongruous plaque embedded on the side of a building. The building was a modern parking garage, similar to...
Abraham Lincoln was sworn in for his second term as president and delivered his second inaugural address on...
This is the Evening Star, published the day President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Obviously, the main headline focuses on his death and the attempted murder of Secretary William Seward. The Evening Star April...
This is incredible. It's the actual broadside advertising the play being held at Ford's Theatre on Friday, April 14th, 1865. This was the play Lincoln and his wife chose to attend. Click the image for great...
We dug up this powerful image of Abraham Lincoln's funeral procession heading down Pennsylvania Avenue on April 19th, 1865. Click on it for better details. Washington, D.C. President Lincoln's funeral procession on Pennsylvania...
This is the President's official railroad car in 1865, likely taken around January. Four months later, the car would be used as Lincoln's funeral car. Photograph shows the president's rail car at the...