Projects

Click on the headings or images below to access the special pages and projects LincolnConspirators.com has to offer.

Lincoln Assassination Tours

LincolnAssassinationTours.com is the sister-site of Lincoln Conspirators. Each year, we offer a limited number of fully narrated bus tours of the escape route assassin John Wilkes Booth took from D.C. to Virginia. If you’ve ever wanted to experience this history firsthand, please check out LincolnAssassinationTours.com.

The Lincoln Conspirators at Fort Jefferson Documentary Series

In 2023, I filmed my own documentary during a visit to Dry Tortugas National Park in Florida. My documentary series of eight videos documents the experiences of the four Lincoln assassination conspirators who were sentenced to prison terms at Fort Jefferson.

The Annotated Lincoln Assassination Trial

In an effort to make the voluminous trial of the Lincoln assassination conspirators accessible, this project breaks the proceedings down day by day. Summaries of each witness’s testimony are provided and contextualized. The testimony is also organized based on each conspirator. This project has proven very helpful for use with students.

John Wilkes Booth Exhumation Trial Reunion

In 2025, to mark the 30th anniversary of the John Wilkes Booth Exhumation Trial in Baltimore, Maryland, I moderated a reunion panel with five participants from that trial. We discussed the history behind the effort to exhume John Wilkes Booth and the testimony that legally disproved the conspiracy theories that claimed the assassin escaped justice.

Reviews of the Manhunt miniseries

In 2024, the New York Times bestselling book Manhunt: The Twelve-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson was adapted into a miniseries on AppleTV+. I completed historical reviews of each episode, describing the fact vs. fiction in each episode. These are in-depth reviews that cover many, many aspects of the Lincoln assassination story.

John Wilkes Booth in the Woods Video Series

In 2014, I completed a re-enactment of the four and a half days that John Wilkes Booth spent hiding in a pine thicket in Southern Maryland during his escape. I shot a series of videos exploring this often-overlooked aspect of Booth’s escape.

Lincoln Assassination Maps

This ongoing project is a series of custom-made Google Maps highlighting the locations of various historical sites, museums, and graves related to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Odd physical locations connected to the Lincoln assassination story can be found all over the nation. What’s the closest site near you?

The Escape Route of John Wilkes Booth

While the custom Google Maps do contain the different sites related to Booth’s escape, it is a bit difficult to follow the route amidst all the other pins that are shown. For a basic overview of John Wilkes Booth’s escape, I created this helpful StoryMap.

On This Day in the Lincoln Assassination

Before the destruction of Twitter, I completed a year-long project of tweeting out a daily “On This Day” fact connected to the Lincoln assassination. This page houses the text and images from these daily anniversaries.

Picture Galleries

For the visual learners, here is a series of picture galleries relating to a different event, person, or site connected to the Lincoln assassination story.

Top Blog Posts

This blog has been in existence since 2012 and contains over 600 posts (and counting). In the early days, my posts were pretty basic and written mostly just for me and a small group of friends who shared my interests. Over time, however, both this blog’s audience and style have grown considerably. While I’m happy with each post here on LincolnConspirators.com, I wanted to highlight a selection of posts that I feel are among the best. Many of the posts in this curated list are in-depth explorations of a topic that took a great deal of research and writing to put together. They may not all be the most popular posts on my website, but they are a selection of those of which I am particularly proud.

• “Back There” with The Twilight Zone (published 2024)
• An Assassination Playbill Goes to Auction (published 2024)
• Breakfast with Booth (published 2023)
• A Genuine Garrett Farm Relic? Patrick Tighe and the Patrols of the 16th NY (published 2023)
• How the ALPLM lost the Taper Collection (published 2022)
• Formerly Enslaved Voices in the Lincoln Assassination Trial (published 2021)
• Conspiracy in Presidential Assassinations (published 2020)
• Lewis Powell’s Life in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida (published 2020)
• A New Photograph of Dr. Mudd? (published 2019)
• The Ford’s Theatre Orchestra (published 2018)
• A Piece of Crutch (published 2018)
• “Freedom’s Battle at Christiana” (published 2018)
• Lola (published 2018)
• The Hidden History of Spencer Clark (published 2018)
• An Assassination Cane (published 2017)
• Grave Thursday: John Hubbard (published 2017)
• The Hidden History of James P. Ferguson (published 2017)
• Following Orders: The Arrest and Case of John McCall, Assassination Sympathizer (published 2016)
• Julia Wilbur and the Saga of the Lincoln Assassination Conspirators (published 2015)
• John Wilkes Booth’s Poetic Envelope (published 2015)
• St. Clement’s Island and the Forgotten Tragedy on the Potomac (published 2014)
• The National Museum of Health and Medicine and the Lincoln Assassination (published 2014)
• The Forgotten Daughter – Rosalie Ann Booth (published 2013)
• Booth on the Shores of Nanjemoy Creek (published 2013)
• Booth at Lincoln’s Second Inauguration (originally published 2012, revised 2025)
• Cloak and Daggers: Cutting Through the Confusion of the Assassination Knives (originally published in the Surratt Courier in 2012)
• Emerick Hansell: The Forgotten Casualty (originally published in the Surratt Courier in 2010)