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

President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order, insisting that our history must “focus on the greatness of the achievements ...

1 The two generals met shortly after noon April 9, 1865, at the home of Wilmer McLean in the village of Appomattox Court House, Virginia. Lee’s surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia to ...

Lee’s men, all battle-hardened Confederate troops ... “Our sojourn at Appomattox Court House was a hard experience. We had raced to that point,” prepared to fight on and instead found ...

Appomattox Court House National Historical Park is commemorating the 160th anniversary of the victory of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S.

Generals Grant and Lee agreed to convene at the home of Wilmer McLean at Appomattox Court House to stop the fighting ... for his last stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn than his role 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 American Civil War ended with the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia on April 9, 1865. At the Varnum Armory Museum, a band playing Civil War era music played some tunes, and several ...