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Alton Telegraph on MSN4d
1865, Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox
By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, April 9, the 99th day of 2025. There are 266 days left in the year. Today in ...
The Daily Item4d
Celebrations muted in the Valley when the Civil War ended
Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their ...
The Trentonian6d
Guest Op-Ed: Trenton to commemorate 160th anniversary of Civil War’s end
April 9, our great Union of states will officially be celebrating the 160th Anniversary of the official End of the Civil War with General Robert E. Lee’s surrender to ...
Redlands Daily Facts2d
Professing Faith: Civil War generals and their connections to religion
It was in this month in 1865 the Civil War was largely ended, and the long painful task of rebuilding the nation began. It ...
Trump's bankrupt empire
Donald Trump may be overseeing and intensifying a planetary bankruptcy, a kind of decline and fall that hasn’t been part of ...
CounterPunch5dOpinion
President Bankrupt
From childhood, I think I had some eerie sense of just how bad it could get in America. After all, in junior high and high ...
The Daily Signal2dOpinion
The Nature of War
With two large theater wars raging, maybe it’s time to pause for a few minutes and reflect on the historic nature of war.
The Times of Israel on MSN2d
Slave-owning Jewish Confederate woman documents wartime Passover in newly published diary
Seen in their entirety for the first time, Emma Mordecai's US Civil War writings paint a seemingly contradictory picture of ...
160 years since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.