Author and professor Michael Vorenberg joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book 'Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War'. Supreme Court blocks new deportations of Venezuelans ...

BLOOMINGTON — The tall man with a stovepipe hat and recognizable mole shared the good news Saturday that he had received the articles of surrender from Gen. Robert E. Lee, declaring the end to ...

The official end came when President Andrew Johnson, who was vice president until the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in April, declared a formal end to the war on Aug. 20th, 1866.

President Andrew Johnson, formerly Vice President to the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, officially declared the end of the war on Aug. 20, 1866, as documented by the University of ...

OVERVIEW: Abraham Lincoln’s presidency was defined by the Civil War. Before he even took office—and largely because of his election—southern states were seceding from the Union, and he would ...

And it would become an even more remarkable end to the Civil War. The British-built ship’s target was the American whaling fleet in the far North Pacific, Bering Sea and the Arctic.

The Democratic nominee, George McClellan, Lincoln’s former top general, was billed as the “peace candidate” — the contender who would seek to bring the to a speedy end. Lincoln won the ...

Explain that this interactive will give them the opportunity to make some of the key decisions Lincoln faced during the Civil War. ... abolition of slavery as a means to an end—i.e. the ...