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

The Kings and Generals animated documentary series returns with a powerful new chapter: the American Civil War. Building on ...

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.

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April 9 marks 160 years of the anniversary of when General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at ...

Richland County has an interesting link to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln -- and the death of his killer, John Wilkes Booth.

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

Lincoln and Juárez never met but kept close diplomatic ties for years, likely a factor in covert U.S. help against the invasion of Mexico.

1682 – Robert La Salle claimed the lower Mississippi River and all lands that touch it for France. 1770 – Captain James Cook discovered Botany Bay on the Australian continent. 1833 – Peterborough, NH, ...

It was in this month in 1865 the Civil War was largely ended, and the long painful task of rebuilding the nation began. It was on April 9, Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses Grant. On April 14, ...

Built in 1885, the Ulysses S. Grant School is considered one of the city's oldest surviving public school buildings.

A depiction of General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox ... how the surrender meant two very different things to the victorious ...