When the great soul of Abraham Lincoln finally took flight at 7:22 on the morning of 15th of April 1865, his War Secretary, Edwin M. Stanton, who had sat by his bedside throughout the night, his heart full of grief, quietly arose and said: “Now he belongs to the ages.”

150 years ago today, President Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
On Hari Ini Dalam Sejarah Dunia, Umapagan Ampikaipakan speaks to authors and historians, Edward Steers Jr., Brian Anderson, and Thomas Bogar in an attempt at going beyond the popular narrative of what happened on that fateful night.

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