General Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox came the day before the first night of Passover 1865. A Chicago rabbi, Liebmann Adler, welcomed the conclusion of the Civil War and the end to slavery, ...

Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Elsewhere in the country, parts of the rebel army ...

These are not people with whom we can negotiate, so turn to the lessons of history for dealing with non-negotiable opponents.

Donald Trump picked on the wrong athlete. Even though Jackie Robinson died in 1972, last week he bested Trump in a contest ...

As they paraded by him for the first time in March of 1864, soldiers of the Army of the Potomac knew the general in full dress blues, accented with sash and sword, was the freshly minted commander of ...

Read full article: Human remains discovered during cold case investigation, according to Appomattox County Sheriff’s Office The Appomattox County Sheriff’s Office was conducting an ...

Dr. Chris Mackowski, professor in the Jandoli School, spoke in Mobile, Alabama, earlier this month for the American Battlefield Trust, where he discussed the surrenders of the Confederacy in a program ...

Now nearly 200 years old, Williamsport’s world-famous Repasz Band has announced a new Endowment Fund to help the group ...

Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second ...

A Brown historian’s look at the fight that followed Robert E. Lee’s surrender, a novel about a lost snowbird and a pair of ...