Ted review's Jay Winik's book that details Lincoln's assassination and the events surrounding it. April 1865 was a month that could have unraveled the nation. Instead, it saved it. Ted reviews Jay ...

The month of April 1865 was divided in two. The first half was punctuated by a series of Union victories that culminated in the surrender of Gen. Robert E. Lee and his army. In Springfield a ...

On this day in history, April 26, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was killed when Union soldiers tracked him down to a farm in Virginia 12 days after he fatally shot the ...

The surrender of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant near Appomattox on April 9, 1865 was an event remembered as essentially the end of the ...

When Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia to Lt.-General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox on April 9, 1865, an exchange of their respective seder plans was not high ...

“April is the cruelest month,” poet T.S. Eliot wrote. An inordinate number of tragedies have occurred in April. The sinking of the Titanic in 1912. The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.

Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. president to be killed by an assassin's bullet. A total of four presidents have been shot and killed while in office. Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the ...

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As America continues to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, it is appropriate to take note of important events that took place in April of 1865. The only good day during the Civil War — ...

Editor’s note: This continues a series of reports on what happened in Southern Illinois 150 years ago, during the Civil War. Reports will appear on days of significance to Southern Illinois — known at ...

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