Archive for November, 2007

Slavery

By Jonathan R. Allen - Last updated: Friday, November 16, 2007

Until the cleansing of the Civil War, slavery was a fact in the United States. The bloodshed of the Civil War brought an end to slavery and kept this nation as an undivided union of states.

Doctor Samuel Alexander Mudd

By Jonathan R. Allen - Last updated: Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Doctor Samuel Alexander Mudd was the physician who treated assassin John Wilkes Booth’s broken left leg after Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln. Booth had broken his leg when he leapt onto the stage from the presidential box at Ford’s Theatre after shooting Lincoln in the back of his head. Booth then fled on horseback.