It’s a comfort to remember that the virtues he embodied are fundamentally American.

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

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

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

It was in this month in 1865 the Civil War was largely ended, and the long painful task of rebuilding the nation began. It ...

On April 15, 1865, the Civil War had just ended, the 16th U.S. president had been killed. How would Americans respond?

Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their paper trumpeting the end of the Civil War: “Victory, Victory” and “The ...

And how could there have been, since the Lincoln administration ... In the popular imagination, the Civil War usually ends with the surrender of Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army at Appomattox ...