Martha Hodes is professor of history at New York University. She has presented her scholarship around the world, and serves as a U.S. history consultant for documentaries, television and radio shows, and museum exhibitions. She is the author of Mourning Lincoln, winner of the Lincoln Book Prize; The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century; and White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South, winner of the Allan Nevins Prize for Literary Distinction in the Writing of History. She has been awarded fellowships from Harvard University, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Whiting Foundation, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
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The news of Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 15, 1865, just days after Confederate surrender, astounded the war-weary nation. Massive crowds turned out for services and ceremonies. Countless expressions of grief and dismay were printed in newspape... SEE MORE