Scott Schroeder

Abraham Lincoln 217th Birthday Event: Symposium & Banquet | The Abraham Lincoln Association ALA celebrates the 217th anniversary of the birth of our 16th president on February 12, 2026. The Banquet speaker will be Professor Allen Guelzo and Michael Burlingame. Three Lincoln scholar-writers…

Registration closes on February 2, so save your spot today! abrahamlincolnassociation.org/abraham-linc...

Just one month until the Abraham Lincoln 217th Birthday Event: Symposium & Banquet! Join us in Springfield for both the annual banquet on February 12 and the Benjamin P. Thomas Symposium and Thomas F. Schwartz Lunch on February 13.

Happy New Year! We're thankful for our ALA members and community. Wishing you a happy and healthy start to 2026.

I’m very excited to announce my new venture, LincolnAssassinationTours.com. We offer an all day guided bus tour covering the escape & manhunt for Abraham Lincoln’s assassin. Experience history firsthand as we hunt down John Wilkes Booth in the comfort of an air conditioned motorcoach. #skystorians 🗃️

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I am a historian of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination and a former elementary school teacher. I love everything about #publichistory. I hope my fellow #skystorians 🗃️ and history enthusiasts will consider taking a tour with my new business, LincolnAssassinationTours.com.

Save the date for next year's banquet and symposium on February 12 and 13, 2026 at the President Abraham Lincoln Hotel in Springfield, Illinois. Join us for a day of scholarship and discourse on the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln.

“After several years of absence Dave Taylor is renewing the Booth Escape Tour. I can’t think of a better person to narrate this exciting tour... Dave is clearly the leader of a new generation of assassination scholars. Take the tour. You will love it!” - Ed Steers

The painting “Assassination of Lincoln” by Howard Hill (1872). It depicts Abraham Lincoln being carried out of Ford’s Theatre by a sobbing crowd. In the top right is a depiction of John Wilkes Booth and David Herold on horseback with Herold looking off to a vision of his execution and Booth rides full bore into a nest of hellish monsters.

A President murdered. His assassins on the run. A nation in mourning.
Join us for a historic, true crime bus tour like no other as you become part of the manhunt for Abraham Lincoln’s assassin. We are now booking tours for Spring 2026.
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Just a few more days of this special photography exhibit displayed at Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office.

You'll see almost life-size images of Civil War nurses, read their stories, and walk through an incredibly historic place.

Glad to hear!

Do they still have the hotel history exhibits with the Dickens door and mirror, etc. I enjoyed seeing that stuff.

lincoln-institute.org/scholarship-... The Abraham Lincoln Institute announces a travel grant of $1,000.00 (one thousand dollars) for graduate students in the Civil War field. #Skystorians #CivilWarHistory

Booth at Lincoln’s Second Inauguration On March 4, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated for a second time following his reelection in November of 1864. With hopes that an end to the Civil War was in sight, Lincoln gave a hist…

An old blog post of mine was recently linked to in an article from The Guardian. The increase in visitors motivated me to revise the piece with better text and images. Here’s the newly improved “[John Wilkes] Booth at Lincoln’s Second Inauguration.” lincolnconspirators.com/2012/05/31/b... 🗃

Reposting for the evening crowd.

Register today for the Third Annual ALA Summer Symposium to hear Scott Schroeder & David Weigers present “The Lincoln Sculpture Project—A Digital World Tour.” The event will be held at the Cantigny Park Visitors’ Theater Center, Wheaton, Illinois, on Saturday, June 21, 2025, from 9:00am-12:00pm.

Am I correct in saying that this is how the hotel would have looked during the time period when Dickens took up residence there?

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The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln | The Abraham Lincoln Association Originally published by ALA in 1953, The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln is a multi-volume set of Lincoln’s correspondence, speeches, and other writings.

Great news for those studying the American Civil war and Lincoln! The rare 1st and 2nd supplements to the “Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln” are now available online courtesy of the Abraham Lincoln Association. Check it out/ pass it on! #skystorians
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Enjoying the NYE Twilight Zone marathon on Syfy? I wrote an in-depth analysis of the Lincoln assassination episode, Back There: lincolnconspirators.com/2024/10/22/b... #skystorians

I wrote an extremely deep-dive into the Lincoln assassination episode of The Twilight Zone that debuted on this date in 1961: lincolnconspirators.com/2024/10/22/b...
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The Lincoln Conspirators at Fort Jefferson Documentary Series Slumbering in the midst of the Gulf of Mexico at the very end of the Florida Keys is a unique relic of the past. It is the largest brick masonry fort in the Western Hemisphere, built to guard Ameri…

In 1865, four of the conspirators convicted of assisting in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln were sentenced to serve time at Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas. In my new video series, I explore what life was like in this isolated prison. #skystorians
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A Prison for the Lincoln Conspirators The Civil War led to a significant change for Fort Jefferson. Rather than just being a military garrison on the gulf, the fort was transformed into an isolated island prison for disloyal and crimin…

The Civil War led to Fort Jefferson being transformed into a military prison for disloyal Union soldiers. In the second installment of my documentary series, we learn how Fort Jefferson also came to house the Lincoln assassination conspirators. #skystorians
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Dr. Mudd’s Escape After two months of being imprisoned at the Dry Tortugas, Dr. Samuel A. Mudd had come to a decision. He had witnessed first-hand other prisoners make their escape by stowing aboard the supply ships…

On Sept. 25, 1865, Dr. Samuel A. Mudd attempted to make his escape from his island prison of Fort Jefferson. In the third installment of my video series on the imprisonment of the Lincoln conspirators, we explore Dr. Mudd’s Escape. #skystorians 🗃️
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The Dungeon In the aftermath of Dr. Mudd’s escape attempt in 1865, the Lincoln conspirators found themselves removed from their regular cell in the second tier of the fort and placed into a locked room o…

Part four of my video series about the Lincoln assassination conspirators’ imprisonment at Fort Jefferson is up! In this installment, we look at the time the men spent locked up in the “dungeon” - a dark and inhospitable area of the fort. #skystorians 🗃️
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Life and Death at Fort Jefferson In the fifth part of the series, we look at the everyday life of the Lincoln conspirators. We examine the daily struggles of insects, disease, and poor food which made it challenging to survive on …

Residing at the Dry Tortugas was a constant struggle against insects, climate, and disease. In part five of my video series, we look at how the Lincoln assassination conspirators experienced Life and Death at Fort Jefferson. #skystorians 🗃️
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Yellow Fever Of all the diseases that threatened the residents of the Dry Tortugas, none were as terrifying as “Yellow Jack.” Fort Jefferson had previously fallen victim to the plague of yellow feve…

Part six of my video series about the imprisonment of the Lincoln assassination conspirators is out! In this part, a Yellow Fever epidemic strikes Fort Jefferson, leading to the death of one of the conspirators. #skystorians 🗃️ lincolnconspirators.com/2024/12/03/y...

Hello, followers! I’m an expert on the Lincoln assassination. I study all aspects of April 14, 1865, including the lives of the assassin & his conspirators. Addressing John Wilkes Booth’s dark radicalization in white supremacy and political violence sheds light on Abraham Lincoln’s life and legacy.