To learn more about John Wilkes Booth and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, try the following resources:

• Abraham Lincoln's Assassination (History Channel)
• The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (American Experience - PBS)
• The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (Library of Congress)
• The Trial of the Lincoln Assassination Conspirators (Famous Trials)

​All of my posts on the Civil War can be found here.

To learn more about the American Civil War, try the following resources:

• American Civil War (New York Times)
• A More Perfect Union (Library of Congress)
• American Civil War (History Channel)
• Civil War Animated
• Crisis at Fort Sumter (Tulane University)
• Discovering the Civil War (National Archives)
• Pictures of the Civil War (National Archives)
• Selected Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress)
• Special Report: The Civil War (Smithsonian)
• The Civil War (PBS)
• The Valley of the Shadow (University of Virginia)

​All of my posts on the Civil War can be found here.

On this day in 1994, civil war erupted in the east African nation of Rwanda.  For the next 100 days, the Hutu extremists who controlled the country brutally murdered an estimated 500,000 to 1 million civilian Tutsis and moderate Hutus in what has been labeled as the worst episode of ethnic genocide since World War II.

To learn more about the Rwandan Genocide, try the following resources:

• Ghosts of Rwanda (PBS)
• Hutu - Tutsi Conflict (CNN)
• Rwanda: How the Genocide Happened (BBC)
• Rwanda: The Wake of Genocide
• The Triumph of Evil (PBS)
• Voices of Rwanda
• When the World Turned Its Back (Time)

All of my posts on Africa can be found here.
All of my posts on human rights can be found here.