Robert E. Lee was a central character in America's defining national trauma, the Civil War. These images explore other facets of his life, from the young boy coping with the abandonment of an ...

Lee Memorial Association, Stratford Few figures in American history are more ... five years after the end of the Civil War. In a new biography, Robert E. Lee, Roy Blount, Jr., treats Lee as ...

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 ...

Several states in the south still observe Confederate Memorial Day in April as an official holiday, giving state workers 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...