Seward had been stabbed in the face and neck with a Bowie knife by another conspirator, Lewis Powell. In a near miraculous ...

Today, and every April 9 to come, should be a national holiday. A holiday to commemorate, celebrate, and sanctify the story ...

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: ...

“The American Civil War has an official end date, and that end date is August 1866,” Vorenberg said. Notably, the official ...