John Wilkes Booth

Comedian Jesse Joyce says his fascination with “the guy who cut his own balls off with a pair of scissors and then killed John Wilkes Booth” forced him to write his new book.

Capote’s ashes joined locks of Abraham Lincoln’s hair, pieces of Queen Victoria’s wedding cake, and unused Nazi toilet paper on auction blocks this year.

Locks of both Abraham Lincoln and his killer, John Wilkes Booth, are about to be auctioned off. What makes famous people’s hair so collectable?

John Wilkes Booth was a fanatical Southerner, but he was neither stupid nor demonstrably crazy. So what turned the handsome, successful actor into America’s most famous murderer?

On the 149th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, read the Sacramento Daily Union’s account of the chaotic, historic night.

A neocon rag attacks Rand Paul--a little preview of a 2016 fight that's gonna be great!

What’s a doctor to do when a villain hobbles into the emergency room? By Kent Sepkowitz.