Edward Steers Jr.

Edward Steers Jr. is an American historian specializing in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

Career

Steers worked as a research scientist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland for thirty-two years until he retired in 1994 and started a new career as a writer. Edward Steers Jr. (University of Pennsylvania, AB, PhD) is the leading authority on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He has authored or edited eight books on Lincoln’s death including Blood on the Moon, The Lincoln Assassination Conspirators, His Name is Still Mudd, The Trial, The Lincoln Assassination. The Evidence, and The Lincoln Assassination Encyclopedia. His book Blood on the Moon alleges that the Confederate Secret Service was intimately involved with John Wilkes Booth ultimately leading to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

Books

External videos
Booknotes interview with Steers on Blood on the Moon, February 17, 2002, C-SPAN
Presentation by Steers on Blood on the Moon, March 16, 2002, C-SPAN
Presentation by Steers on The Trial: The Assassination of President Lincoln, November 17, 2005, C-SPAN
Presentation by Steers on The Lincoln Assassination Encyclopedia, April 24, 2010, C-SPAN

Steers is the author of a number of books, including:

• The escape and capture of John Wilkes Booth. Thomas Publications. 1992. ISBN 0939631490.
• His name is still Mudd : the case against Doctor Samuel Alexander Mudd. Thomas Publications. 1997. ISBN 1577470192.
• The trial : the assassination of President Lincoln and the trial of the conspirators. University Press of Kentucky. 2003. ISBN 0813122775.
• Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. University Press of Kentucky. 2001. ISBN 0813122171.
• Don't you know there's a war on? : life on the home front during World War II. Sign of the Ox. 2007. ISBN 9781577471288.
• The Lincoln Assassination. The Evidence. University of Illinois Press. 2009. ISBN 9780252033681.
• We'll meet again : a story about love and intrigue in the midst of war. Publishamerica Inc. 2009. ISBN 1448966884.
• Edwards Steers, Jr and Harold Holzer., ed. (2009). The Lincoln Assassination Conspirators: Their Confinement and Execution, as Recorded in the Letterbook of John Frederick Hartranft. Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-3396-5.
• The Lincoln Assassination Encyclopedia. Harper Perennial. 2010. ISBN 9780061787751.
• Hoax. Hitler's Diaries, Lincoln's Assassins, and other Famous Frauds. University Press of Kentucky. 2013. ISBN 978-0-8131-4159-6.

External links

• Official website
• Appearances on C-SPAN
  • "Interview with Steers on Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln". Booknotes. February 17, 2002. Archived from the original on 2012-12-31.