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

Edward Otho C. Ord was a major general in the Union army during the Civil War and commanded the Department of Arkansas and the Fourth Military District during Reconstruction.

Emancipation Day marks the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia on April 16, 1862. More than 3,000 enslaved ...

With two large theater wars raging, maybe it’s time to pause for a few minutes and reflect on the historic nature of war.

He focused on more than 50 relics, including a vase carved out of a timber from the USS Constitution, a piece of the white towel used to signal the Confederate surrender at Appomattox and a chunk ...

By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and thirteen years after ... Even spread over the 30 years that had elapsed since Appomattox, that would be an average of 1,766 murders each ...

Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia ... Ultimately, John Wilkes Booth couldn’t stop the end of the Civil War. Lee’s surrender on April 9th caused a ripple effect among other troops, who followed ...