John Wilkes
Born October 17, 1725London, EnglandDied December 26, 1797London, England
Political leader, writer, publisher
"The government [of Great Britain] have sent the spirit of discord ...
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As a focus and spokesman of radical discontent, the English politician John Wilkes (1727-1797) made an important contribution to the movement for parliamentary reform.John Wilkes was born on Oct. 17, ...
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Ford's Theatre, the site of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination, will be mostly off-limits for visitors for the next year and a half while it undergoes renovations.The theater in northwest Wa...
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Call it theater of the macabre: A jar containing a small piece of tissue from the body of John Wilkes Booth, President Abraham Lincoln's killer, will be on display when the musical "Assassins" open...
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The theater where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated will be renovated and made part of a six-building complex that includes multimedia educational displays on the legacy of the nation's 16th preside...
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Question 1 of 10:The war began when the pro-slavery Southern states broke away from the rest of the
USA
. This act was referred to as...?The JunctureThe Confederate Break
The Secession
The Dixie D...
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Today is Thursday, April 26, the 116th day of 2007. There are 249 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:Four hundred years ago, on April 26, 1607, English colonists went ashore at pres...
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Today is Sunday, April 15, the 105th day of 2007. There are 260 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:In the early hours of April 15, 1912, the British luxury liner Titanic sank in the...
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Although it took firefighters less than three minutes to respond to a row house blaze, little could prepare them for what they found. Of the 13 people inside the two-story, three-bedroom home in ea...
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Today is Saturday, July 7, the 188th day of 2007. There are 177 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On July 7, 1865, four people were hanged in Washington for conspiring with John Wi...
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A battered old hat, a pair of stained gloves, a child's silly rhyme _ hardly the stuff of history.Except that this hat is a stovepipe hat, the gloves are stained with a president's blood and the rh...
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As Presidents’ Day 2007 approaches, Americans continue to hold George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in extraordinarily high regard. Washington, the nation’s first President, is viewed ...
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John Wilkes
John Wilkes
Theater where Lincoln was shot closes
