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Abraham Lincoln died as a result of a conspiracy. John Wilkes Booth was not a lone gunman. He meant to assassinate the President, Vice-President, and Secretary of State in the same night. To do this, Booth had to rely on the help of other people who ultimately proved unreliable. The killer assigned to Vice President Andrew Johnson, George Atzerodt, got a room in the hotel Johnson was staying and loitered around a bit, but he never attempted the assassination. History Posters, Famous Graves, Abe Lincoln, Wilde Westen, Western Film, Newspaper Headlines, Historical Newspaper, Historia Universal, Historical People

Abraham Lincoln died as a result of a conspiracy. John Wilkes Booth was not a lone gunman. He meant to assassinate the President, Vice-President, and Secretary of State in the same night. To do this, Booth had to rely on the help of other people who ultimately proved unreliable. The killer assigned to Vice President Andrew Johnson, George Atzerodt, got a room in the hotel Johnson was staying and loitered around a bit, but he never attempted the assassination.

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This seminar looks at two bestselling nineteenth-century American authors whose works made the subject of slavery popular among mainstream readers. _Uncle Tom's Cabin_ by Harriet Beecher Stowe and _The Adventures of_ _Huckleberry Finn_ by Mark Twain have subsequently become canonized and reviled, embraced and banned by individuals and groups at both ends of the political and cultural spectrum and everywhere in between.

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