Some key American institutions at the outbreak of the Civil War were astonishingly primitive and Antietam ... It also asks us to consider a rift between science and religion that emerged after the war ...

Films set during the American Civil War often deal with graphic violence and sensitive subject matter. Here are 14 that make ...

Garland’s properly alarming and exquisitely designed film is as close as American mainstream cinema is likely to get to an experimental tone poem. Civil War was controversial by some ...

New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. . 306. Illus, append, notes, biblio., index. $35.00. . ISBN:0195182944. Lincolnites and Rebels is a valuable contribution to ...

The American Civil War did not end well ... Some of them from publishers who specialize in nothing but Civil War books. Even now, any discussion of what caused the Civil War will trigger dreary ...

Former Russian Prime Minister and longtime Vladimir Putin ally Dmitry Medvedev recently made a bold prediction that the ...

America’s chief humanitarian official rose to fame by speaking out against atrocities. Now she’s trapped by one.

Barberton native writes a historical novel about a young mother’s perilous trek to visit her wounded husband in a Confederate ...

An American Slave, Written by Himself. The book was published in Boston by the American Anti-Slavery Society and is perhaps the most significant example of the dynamic connection between the ...

Historians describe the debate over extending civil rights to former slaves that divided the country after the Civil War. The same issues ... like in all eras of American political history ...

Kara Walker, one of America's most preeminent artists, takes us to another moment in history when viewpoints were perilously ...

About 57,000 books have been published on the American Civil War so what possibly could be left to explore? Quite a bit, it ...