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 ...

St. Mary’s County Government’s Museum Division will host a two-day event on April 26-27, 2025, to honor the 87 lives lost in ...

“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 ...

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

The debate about slavery in the western territories of the United States continued for years, and came to a head in 1861 when the country was propelled into Civil War. Lincoln publicly expressed ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This cover image released by Knopf shows “Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War ...

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 ...

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

The 1990 miniseries details the American Civil War from beginning to end, and dives into the lives of historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln and General Stonewall Jackson. Baldwin said that ...

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...