Finally, on April 18, 1865, the Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate army. 617,000 Americans had died in the war, approximately the same number as in all of America's other wars ...

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought ...

On April 17, 1865, the largest troop surrender of the Civil War occurred. While the event was a momentous one, the place where it happened was not particularly notable before that day. It was a ...

The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...

Recipes from a time when Southern infrastructure was a long way from being restored, but families had to keep everyone fed.

The Civil War lasted four years, from 1861 through 1865. After the war ... a discussion after students view the video or read the background paragraph above. For the jigsaw activity, assign ...

After the American Civil War of 1861–1865, the growth of cities and the ... The clip can be used as historical background to study of the Civil Rights movement. Students could look in more ...

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated 160 years ago. There had been four years of terrible conflagration and the loss of thousands of lives. I have chosen to honor Black History Month by featuring two of ...