A new movie out now--which I have yet to see--dramatizes the travails of Mary Surratt, the sole woman charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. As I continue to be optimistic about America's intellectual life, I think/hope that we are about to see a resurgence of interest in the Lincoln presidency and assassination and, perhaps, The Civil War and Reconstruction. This year marks the sesquicentennial of The War, after all.
We've set up a display here at the Chippewa Falls Public Library bringing together as much material as we could find in the collection regarding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and we hope you'll come by and browse...If you don't have time and want to learn more about Lincoln, the war that brought him to power, his assassination and the trials that ensued, we've sorted through some good online sources, too.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln's Papers at the Library of Congress
The White House's official Lincoln biography.
Biography.com--Abraham Lincoln
The Assassination
PBS' American Experience: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln--It doesn't get much better than this.
Ohio State University--Thumbnail Biography of John Wilkes Booth
Geoffrey Elliott's Abraham Lincoln Blog--The 145th Anniversary of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
The Trials
The Law Library of Congress has several documents in full-text PDF, all focusing on the trial of Lincoln's assassins.
The University of Missouri at Kansas City's Lincoln Conspiracy Page--huge, fascinating, complete with trial transcripts.
An Analysis of the Proceedings by the University of Pittsburgh's Law School
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