Those involved in unleashed political fighting today should learn from this end-of-war, Easter season moment from York history.

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

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

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

April 9 marks the 160th anniversary of the day America’s Civil War ended when General Lee surrendered to General Grant at the ...

Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their ...

I’m about to turn 39 and we’re at the beginning of the Trump tariffs. It feels like it could be the beginning of yet another ...

The Struggle to End the American Civil War” By Michael Vorenberg, read by Landon Woodson. Random House Audio, 16½ hours, $28.

April 11, 2025, marked the 160th anniversary of the day Lockport was officially incorporated as a city. But before that ...

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 ...

Submitted photo April 9 marks the 160th anniversary of the day America’s Civil War ended when General Lee surrendered ... The Fenton History Center also has a connection to the end of the war, with ...