Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedi...  ...Corbett became a Cavalry sergeant. After the 1865 assassination of President Lincoln, his unit took part in the s...

President Ronald Reagan survived an assassination attempt on March 30, 1981. This picture was taken...  ...nce. According to the book Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan, Parr believed afterward that sa...

The politics that led to World War I are important, but difficult to teach in American schools because the events are distant in both time and place. To capture the interest of students, teachers often tell the story of...

You may be familiar with Claus von Stauffenberg, who conspired to kill Hitler with a bomb and whose plot was the basis for the Tom Cruise film Valkyrie. But do you know about the many other attempts on Hitler's life? One...

The coffin that Lee Harvey Oswald was buried in back in 1963 is up for sale at an auction house in California. The pine coffin is partially water-damaged by the 18 years it spent in the ground before Oswald's body was e...

On that fateful night in 1865 at Ford's Theatre, Abraham Lincoln's sole bodyguard, Washington policeman John Frederick Parker, was supposed to be sitting outside the presidential box in a passageway behind the door. Trou...