By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, April 9, the 99th day of 2025. There are 266 days left in the year. Today in ...

Regarded as the war’s finest general, Robert E ... army, Lee projected a deep sense of duty and honor and was nicknamed the “Marble Model.” President of Washington College after the war ...

Robert E. Lee was a central character in America's defining national trauma, the Civil War. These images explore other facets of his life, from the young boy coping with the abandonment of an ...

April 9th has witnessed numerous significant events throughout history, spanning a variety of categories including politics, ...

“The American Civil War has an official end date, and that end date is August 1866,” Vorenberg said. Notably, the official ...

Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their paper trumpeting the end of the Civil War: “Victory, Victory” and “The ...

Robert E. Lee surrendered his army two years later in Virginia. In the 160 years since, researchers have repeatedly sought to quantify the Civil War ... Decades after the war ended, according ...