Edward Steers Jr. is an American historian specializing in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
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 government was behind the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Steers is the author of a number of books, including: