April 5: Booker T. Washington
April 5: Booker T. Washington Booker T. Washington, American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents, was born on this date in 1856. Listen to the audiobook version of his autobiography and explore other resources about this important figure in American...
April 9: General Lee Surrenders
April 9: General Lee Surrenders On this day in 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House. Shortly thereafter, Confederate forces throughout the South surrendered as news of Lee’s...
April 11: Liberation of Buchenwald
April 11: Liberation of Buchenwald On this date in 1945, at 3:15 in the afternoon, American forces liberated the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. In the previous days, the Germans had partially evacuated inmates and camp administrators had fled. When the US forces...
April 13: Thomas Jefferson Born
April 13: Thomas Jefferson On this date in 1743, Thomas Jefferson was born. Jefferson was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809. This collection includes audio renditions...
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