BIRMINGHAM, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Books-A-Million, Inc. (Nasdaq/NM: BAMM) today announced that The Hour of Peril by Daniel Stashower, the riveting true story of the "Baltimore Plot," a bold ...

Today’s political conflicts pale when compared with the danger faced by Abraham Lincoln on his way to Washington, D.C., for his first inauguration in 1861. He had to travel through Baltimore. The city ...

It was February 1861, and Abraham Lincoln had just launched a 12-day celebratory train journey from his home in rural Illinois to Washington, where he would soon be inaugurated as 16th president of ...

In the 1930s, Cleveland was beset by a serial killer who left his dismembered victims in various spots around the city, to be found by passersby, or in Lake Erie, where parts of victims would wash up ...

Daniel Stashower was flipping through comic books in a friend's tree house when he learned about a mysterious, unsuccessful plot to kill Abraham Lincoln. The tale of Lincoln's narrow escape from an ...

In American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America’s Jack the Ripper (Minotaur, Sept.), Stashower explores the legendary lawman’s career after the arrest of Al Capone. What was your family ...

In a superb work of literature and history, author Daniel Stashower traces the machinations behind the incident known as the “Baltimore Plot.” This was an audacious conspiracy to assassinate Abraham ...