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

"Lincoln’s Peace" examines the difficulty in turning wartime victory into solving the political and social problems that led ...

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...

We know that at least five of the Venezuelan immigrants were seeking asylum legally. Three had hearings scheduled later this month. How could they be rounded up and flown to El Salvador in the middle ...

The Civil War was an extremely divisive time in American history that split the North and South into the Union and the ...

Richard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American ...

It is fascinating to note that, notwithstanding his antisemitism, Sherman was a great admirer of Rose Eytinge (1835-1911), a Jewish-American actress and author who rose to become one of the most popul ...

Abraham Lincoln changed the course of history not through brute assertion of power but by wrestling with its limits.

Nearly a century after the Civil Conservation Corps reconstructed the once-thriving village of New Salem where Abraham ...

The state secrets privilege allows the U.S. government to withhold sensitive evidence in court cases. Both Democratic and ...

Many of us remember the beginning of Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg Address opening with a number, which we had to learn the meaning of, as it wasn’t expressed in the manner we were accustomed to hearing ...