Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Elsewhere in the country, parts of the rebel army ...

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

Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second ...

Here’s what happened in April 1861, leading up to the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, which spurred the launch of the American 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 ...

This cover image released by Knopf shows "Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War" by Michael Vorenberg. (Knopf via AP) “Lincoln’s Peace” offers a pair of fascinating what ifs. Had ...

“Lincoln’s Peace” offers a pair of fascinating what ifs. Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army, could it have banished all the residual slavery ...

“Lincoln’s Peace” offers a pair of fascinating what ifs. Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army, could it have banished all the residual slavery ...

This cover image released by Knopf shows "Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War" by Michael Vorenberg. (Knopf via AP) ...