Civil War America, a small number of Jewish slaveowners defended the practice. Other prominent Jews joined with abolitionists ...

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

The American Civil War was arguably one of the most devastating conflicts in the history of the United States. Fought over slavery, it divided families and communities and, of course, the nation.

About the only thing the North and South agreed on was that neither wanted to start the American Civil War. If President Abraham Lincoln surrendered Fort Sumter, as South Carolina demanded ...

The New York University researchers who completed the study estimate the overall death toll at 698,000, reaffirming the Civil War as the deadliest armed conflict in American history. Southern ...

In his Second Inaugural Address, Lincoln endowed the Civil War with sacred meaning, creating an American Scripture ... Douglass also started a weekly journal, The North Star, where he challenged ...

In 2019, Trump repeated a claim that if he was removed from office due to impeachment, it could cause a Civil War-like fracture. Last year, he touted that he believed the American Civil War could ...

This cover image released by Knopf shows “Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War” by Michael Vorenberg. (Knopf via AP) But we Americans are an impatient people ...

You couldn’t own a cannon during the Civil War,” the 81-year-old president ... In a May 2024 law review article in the ...

A judge temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from using a 1798 law to toughen immigration enforcement but Venezuelans were deported anyway.