The Civil War officially ended on Aug. 20, 1866, but Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army 16 months earlier on April 9, 1865.

Exactly 150 years ago Thursday, the Civil War ended with what historian Bruce Catton would later describe as “A Stillness At Appomattox.” Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at the ...

As a historian of the American Civil War, I study how the Confederate government used a radical idea: printing paper money. In 1861, 11 states tried to leave the United States and form a new ...

The American Civil War was by far the deadliest conflict in U.S. history. From the start of the war in April 1861, with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, until General Robert E. Lee’s ...

Civil War Toll Much Worse in Confederate States, New Estimates Show An analysis of newly released 19th-century census records offers more insight into the conflict’s costs. Listen to this ...

But though the Civil War was a battle between two regions of the country, sympathy for the Confederacy is no longer confined to states that seceded and border states. Support for Confederate ...