From Manassas to Appomattox, Peter Huntoon connects pivotal Civil War battles through rare National Bank notes issued in the ...

This program originally aired on March 16, 2025. When did the Civil War end? We commonly say it’s a fact that it concluded on April 9, 1865, at Appomattox, where Confederate General Robert E. Lee ...

Bullet to the brain, from one farm boy to another. When John Wilkes Booth fired a .44 lead ball into Abraham Lincoln’s head, the murder shook a nation to its core and led to 13 days of bedlam rivaling ...

The first Lee’s Sandwiches franchise in New England opens at 68 Stafford St., Worcester, with a grand opening celebration on Aug. 31. Tracey Pham of Worcester and siblings Luc Pham, Lap Pham and ...

Curt Fields played Gen. U.S. Grant and Thomas Jessee Gen. Robert E. Lee for the 150th anniversary of the surrender ending the Civil War at the actual site of the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, ...

While the 150th anniversary of General Robert Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Courthouse passed this April with little fanfare, the United States has been repeatedly and brutally reminded that our past ...

NATCHEZ — Behind Hayden Kaiser Jr.'s office desk is a small booklet filled with the first-hand account of events that happened 150 years ago today. The small unassuming gray cover belies the eloquent ...

When we were teenagers, my “the South’s gonna do it again” younger brother bought into some weird conspiracy theory that Gen. Robert E. Lee didn’t really surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia.