Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National ...

Of all the NPS Civil War sites we visited, our favorite is probably Appomattox Court House National Historical Park that is particularly impressive. The visit was so enjoyable we decided to return ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

Shutterstock These Places Aren’t Just Old Fields with Historical Markers If you grew up in Virginia, you probably had a ...

Lee at Appomattox Court House in Virginia on April 9, 1865, no secession of hostilities or retreat from overt and covert combat have transpired. Civil war raged here even prior to the adoption of ...

Curators at the National Museum of American History talked to the brothers who found a relic of the 1800 Adams and Jefferson election When Generals Grant and Lee sat down at Appomattox Court House ...

Grant at Appomattox Court House. All major military operations have been completed.” Then I wrote on the board in big letters: “Mission Accomplished.” I proceeded to ask if the Civil War was ...

Surrender is one of the most essential rules in international humanitarian law. Don't expect it any time soon in the Middle ...

The tech oligarch has unleashed his slow-rolling coup d’état across the federal government, and it’s not clear anything can ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...