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

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For ...

April 9th has witnessed numerous significant events throughout history, spanning a variety of categories including politics, ...

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: ...

In the village of Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 Confederate troops ...

President Grant gave the pen he used to sign the 15th Amendment to a fellow Civil War ... for during the war. In the words of Adam Badeau, an Army officer who had served on the general’s wartime ...

April 9 marks the 160th anniversary of the day America’s Civil War ended when General Lee surrendered to General Grant at the ...

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with key battles fought in places like Pennsylvania, Virginia, and South Carolina ...

April 9, our great Union of states will officially be celebrating the 160th Anniversary of the official End of the Civil War ...

April 9, the day that the American Civil War ended in 1865, should be a national holiday celebrating the defeat of the Confederacy, the end of slavery, and the triumph of liberty.

Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their ...