Twelve days after President Lincoln's historic visit to Richmond, his assassin's journey ended in the small town of Port ...

One of the turning points in history took place on April 26, 1986, when one of the reactors at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power ...

There are disasters you remember because they are too big, too loud, too public to forget. Then there are the ones that ...

It gets worse: The day before the explosion, John Wilkes Booth had been found and killed in a Virginia barn. That story dominated newspapers across the country. People were already emotionally ...

John Wilkes Booth's father – developed a love for Texas after getting to know Sam Houston personally from his early days as a ...

Karen Stone of Fredericksburg has written a book about the Black Diamond disaster, a forgotten tragedy on the Potomac River ...