New Article: Samuel Mudd’s Legacy on Smithsonianmag.com

To commemorate the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination–and inspired by my recent vacation to Florida–I contributed a feature to Smithsonianmag.com about the little-known legacy of Samuel Mudd. The infamous surgeon who set John Wilkes Booth’s  broken leg was sentenced to life and condemned to the notorious army prison at Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas, a …