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

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, ...

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 ...

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

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

In a world full of international strife and division and a ratcheting up of racial tensions due to the administration of President Donald Trump, it’s good to see people from ...

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

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 ...

Ukraine must order its forces to surrender to implement US President ... This would be a horrible massacre, one not seen since World War II," he said. Ukraine denied Trump's and Putin's claims ...

A day after instructing his top commanders to complete the ejection of Ukrainian forces as fast as possible, Putin told a news conference that the situation in Kursk was 'completely under our ...

Gen. Richard Taylor surrendered to Union Maj. Gen. Edward Canby several days after Robert E. Lee’s famous surrender at Appomattox Court House in April 1865. On Feb. 12, Mackowski celebrated the 600th ...