This marks the 160th anniversary of Union soldiers marching to destroy Raleigh as punishment for Lincoln’s assassination, ...

The two greatest presidents died in April, 80 years apart, one 80 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, 56, was slain while enjoying a ...

Charles H. Walker settled in Columbia County after the war, and his descendants are committed to preserving and sharing his ...

April 9 marks 160 years of the anniversary of when General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at ...

Those involved in unleashed political fighting today should learn from this end-of-war, Easter season moment from York ...

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

The Struggle to End the American Civil War” By Michael Vorenberg, read by Landon Woodson. Random House Audio, 16½ hours, $28.

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

3 Without urgent international intervention, Sudan faces a worsening HIV epidemic that could persist long after the war ends. Sudan's HIV crisis is a global health emergency that demands immediate ...

Seward had been stabbed in the face and neck with a Bowie knife by another conspirator, Lewis Powell. In a near miraculous ...

Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their ...