Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

April 9 marks 160 years of the anniversary of when General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at ...

Those involved in unleashed political fighting today should learn from this end-of-war, Easter season moment from York ...

The statue of Captain John O’Donnell, an 18th century merchant who enslaved dozens of Black people on his Maryland plantation, won’t be returning to its former perch in Baltimore’s Canton Square, ...

April 11, 2025, marked the 160th anniversary of the day Lockport was officially incorporated as a city. But before that ...

Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor. Less than 34 hours later, Union forces surrendered. The Civil War ...

It was in this month in 1865 the Civil War was largely ended, and the long painful task of rebuilding the nation began. It was on April 9, Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses Grant. On April 14, ...

By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, April 9, the 99th day of 2025. There are 266 days left in the year. Today in ...

Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their paper trumpeting the end of the Civil War: “Victory, Victory” and “The ...

The case of one of the famous moments in American history—Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox ... Americans learned the same basic story about the end of the Civil War. On April 9, 1865, Lee ...

In the village of Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 Confederate troops ...

HOUSTON — A federal court in Texas today issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) just hours after the American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Texas filed an emergency lawsuit. The TRO halts ...