TOKYO -- Japan paid tribute Friday to nearly 3 million war dead as the country marked its surrender that ended World War II 80 years ago, as concern grows about the rapidly fading memories of the ...

(This is the second of two columns focusing on the surrender of York to the Confederates in late-June 1863 – a pivotal moment in York County’s story. Civil War historian Scott Mingus served as a ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – During the American Civil War, eleven Southern cities were badly damaged or destroyed and almost 116,000 people were displaced. That’s a little more than 1% of the ...

We’re taught in school that the American Civil War ended when Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865 — 160 years ago Wednesday. In fact, reality was ...

For all of the rhetoric in international circles regarding the war in Gaza, one word is never uttered. Yet that word, “surrender,” is the key to ending the conflict. Even more precisely, the end of ...

In World War II, both Germany and Japan surrendered unconditionally. As the World War I armistice was being negotiated, Germany won small concessions, but the allies generally imposed their will, an ...

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 ...

The most pivotal battles of the Spanish–American War were fought in July, 1898, 125 years ago. Early in the month, as U.S. forces pounded the Spanish Navy at sea, on land, troops including Lt. Col.

“Our rejoicing is sobered and subdued by a supreme consciousness of the terrible price we have paid to rid the world of Hitler and his evil band. Let us not forget, my fellow Americans, the sorrow and ...