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

Semmes, historian and Mississippi State Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library research director ... Reconstruction as an expansive project—one that sought to extend civil rights not only to newly ...

President Grant gave the pen he used to sign the 15th Amendment to a fellow Civil War veteran, Herbert Preston. Copyright © 2017 by Wendel A. White President Ulysses ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Southern Illinois University Edwardsville history professor Erik Alexander talked about what America was like in 1869 and provided an overview of ...

On April 9, 1865, Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House ... Congress also moved to grant freedpeople ...

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

In 1940, Germany invaded Norway and Denmark. Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels blamed Britain for the invasion, ...

It seems like Almost Yesterday that the city of Ironton, Missouri installed a series of historical markers to identify Civil ...

Des Moines City Council members this week unanimously approved making Ulysses S. Grant School ... after the 18th U.S. president and a leading Civil War Union general, the six-room school was ...