April 9th has witnessed numerous significant events throughout history, spanning a variety of categories including politics, science, and culture.On this ...

Using innovative cartographic tools, she has cast fresh light on hoary historical debates—What was Robert E. Lee thinking at ... has been well received by Civil War scholars.

“It would be useless and therefore cruel,” Robert E. Lee remarked on the morning of ... hastened the conclusion of 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 ...

Today’s episode will focus on one of the biggest – and most important – turning points in world history; the Battle of ...

Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their ...

By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, April 9, the 99th day of 2025. There are 266 days left in the year. Today in history: On April 9, 1865, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army ...

Actor Alec Baldwin took to Instagram on Tuesday night to inform his followers that he believes America is in a 'pre-Civil War ...

As a teenager, he was an apprentice to the Irish American photographer, Matthew Brady. His photographs captured the raw and haunting realities of the war ... Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate ...

The American Civil War is no exception, since there was no convenient peace ... In the popular imagination, the Civil War usually ends with the surrender of Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army at ...

The American Civil War is no exception, since there was no convenient peace treaty to lend it a conventional closing date. And how could there have been, since the Lincoln administration ...