Jason Emerson

Jason Emerson

Jason Emerson is an award-winning historian and journalist who has published seven books and numerous articles in popular and academic magazines about Abraham Lincoln and his family. Jason is the author of The Madness of Mary Lincoln, Giant in the Shadows: The Life of Robert T. Lincoln, and Lincoln the Inventor. His latest book, The Bear Tree and Other Stories From Cazenovia’s History, was released in October 2021 by Syracuse University Press. Visit his website at jasonemerson.com.

Lieutenant Colonel Almon F. Rockwell (center) was a longtime friend of President James A. Garfield (right). He was also one of roughly 25 people present at Abraham Lincoln's (left) deathbed.

This Man Was the Only Eyewitness to the Deaths of Both Lincoln and Garfield

Almon F. Rockwell's newly resurfaced journals, excerpted exclusively here, offer an incisive account of the assassinated presidents' final moments

Since the 1920s, this unique piece of history has only been displayed publicly three times.

This Civil War–Era Eagle Sculpture Was Made Out of Abraham Lincoln's Hair

The unusual artifact also contains tresses from First Lady Mary Lincoln, members of the president's cabinet and senators

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