Finally, on April 18, 1865, the Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate army. 617,000 Americans had died in the war, approximately the same number as in all of America's other wars ...

Since then, our beautiful country has fought two other wars. We call them the First and Second World War. We have endured ...

The film recounts the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln, focusing on his assassination at Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865, shortly after the Civil War ended. It details his humble beginnings in ...

Finally, constitutionally and politically, Lincoln had to grapple with the evolving meaning of the Civil War. Initially, Lincoln espoused only the cause of Unionism. But as the war continued, he saw ...

37 —Abraham Lincoln The Civil War was about slavery ... Douglass, What the Black Man Wants, Jan. 26, 1865. 43. Id. 44. Henry McNeal Turner, Washington Correspondence Christian Recorder, Jan.

That was certainly the case for the October 4, 1865, issue. This was a mere six months after the end of the Civil War, at a time when Southern states were still in rough shape overall. Slavery was ...

We’ve mentioned before that recipes the Montgomery Advertiser published long ago were often directly targeted to female readers. That was certainly the case for the October 4, 1865, issue.

Christopher George uncovered a late 19th-century Civil War presentation sword in the attic of his historic family home, ...

Austin tiptoed through the Civil War. The major battlefields lay hundreds ... After Texans learned of emancipation on June 19, 1865, two developments changed the shape of the city: The rise ...