Courtesy: Library of Congress Whitman was forty-two years old when the Civil War ... inspired by the war, when Lincoln was assassinated. Whitman was devastated. Just as the book was going to ...

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More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to the outbreak of the bloodiest conflict in the history of North America? A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the ...

A pious and strong-willed king, Charles exhibited from childhood the characteristics that would lead to his downfall. By Dr Richard Cust.

In “Pity the Nation” he reports on Lebanon in the decade and a half from 1976, during a civil war involving Christian ...

It's not a history of the Civil War in the West, but throws fresh light on aspects of the war there, a theater which “has long been pushed to the side by events in the Eastern Theater, but it was in ...

A look at the people and events that shaped the Civil War and Reconstruction ... American History TV does for history enthusiasts what Book TV has done for non-fiction book lovers." ...

3 weeks on the list The author of “The Splendid and the Vile” portrays the months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the beginning of the Civil War. If a book is not in a rank since ...

Men in service took pride in what their flag meant, whether it symbolized their particular corps or the larger intentions of war. Designating flags were used to organize army units, whereas other ...

A look at the people and events that shaped the Civil War and Reconstruction. Discover the people and events that document the American story — Saturdays on C-SPAN2. Come along with American ...

Donal Ó Drisceoil is one of the editors of the book. The newly-published Atlas of the Irish Civil War: New perspectives contains a wealth of new material on multiple aspects of that terrible ...

EDENTON, N.C.—Rod Phillips and Michael Dean, a pair of white 70-something retirees, take opposing sides in the Civil War, usually between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Saturdays. They are separated by a ...