On the morning of July 2, 1881, a man wearing a black slouch hat and a tattered dark suit crept up behind President James ... based civil service since shortly after the Civil War.

“But that’s not yet a civil war.” Manisha Sinha is the James L. and Shirley A. Draper chairwoman in American history at the University of Connecticut. As president of the Society for ...

Students included George Washington Custis Lee, son of Robert E. Lee, and George M. Dallas, U.S. vice president under President James K ... Clarens, for Civil War relics. They unearthed coins ...