Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For generations, Americans learned the same basic story about the end of the Civil ...

After four long and bloody years, the American Civil War ... at Appomattox Court House was a hard experience. We had raced to that point,” prepared to fight on and instead found Lee’s surrender.

The sanctification of Lee and other Confederate leaders, in turn, pushed the complexities of the surrender and of the Civil War era into the shadows, allowing the myth of Appomattox to flourish ...

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

On April 15, 1865, the Civil War had just ended, the 16th U.S. president had been killed. How would Americans respond?

April 11, 2025, marked the 160th anniversary of the day Lockport was officially incorporated as a city. But before that ...

Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse ... peace” after almost exactly four years of a bloody civil war. That Lincoln’s election in 1860 was the catalyst for that ...

The ceremony will honor significant moments such as the surrender at Appomattox. The event will recognize two Civil War veterans buried at the cemetery: Medal of Honor recipients Sergeant John ...