The two men met in the parlor of a private house in the town of Appomattox Court House. The meeting ended the American Civil ...

But it was largely ignored since it couldn't be enforced unless the United States won the Civil War, according to the National Museum ... Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia and ...

Join the History Seekers Team as we follow a 160-year-old Civil War map into the heart of forgotten battlegrounds. Using our metal detectors, we uncover relics buried for generations—each one a silent ...

The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

President of AFE, Joetricia Humbles, noted the vital role that Appomattox played in emancipation. "If it wasn't for what happened on April 9, 1865, there wouldn't be a Juneteenth.

And now, one day after celebrating America’s birthday, you’ll have a chance to go back in time and experience some Civil War ...

Fortunately, there’s an interactive map that can help with that. As Boing Boing explains, TimeMap.org combines the what, who, and where of history into one convenient world map.

When websites don’t get the job done, you turn to a professional genealogist like Char McCargo-Bah, the Alexandria native who identified the descendants of 171 of the Civil War-era freed slaves ...

Tubman's 1863 raid, which destroyed seven plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina and freed 756 enslaved ...

WE are sliding, dangerously, towards a civil war. I hadn’t thought it would come to this. I got that wrong. For two nights there has been mass rioting in Ballymena in Northern Ireland. Hundreds ...