Smithsonian American History Museum

[Don1946]

There is a poignant quote on the first page of this online exhibit:
"It is very strange that I, a boy brought up in the woods, seeing as it were but little of the world, should be drifted into the very apex of this great event."
—Abraham Lincoln, on the Civil War, July 1864

I remember taking my grandson to Smithsonian and seeing the top hat. But the most memorable part of the exhibit, for him and me, was the life-size models of the assassins in their hoods.