Simple Date Question

I was wondering if there is a command to find a recent
date in a table. I know if I did something like
select last_day(date) I will get the last day of all the
months on my table...But is there another command
to find the most recent or firstdate inputed. An

Display alphabetically the name of every project, the project's total charges and the date of the most recent charge.

lol nevermind if I just use MAX(date) or MIN(date) I get the same results.....Damn I love answering my own questions! lol