An 1854 act of Congress undid the deal that had postponed a national reckoning over slavery. Political struggle would soon ...

3 TELL ME EVERYTHING (Random House, $30). By Elizabeth Strout. Recurring characters Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge and Bob ...

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in ...

Some of the most famous Civil War photographs were taken right on the Antietam Battlefield. Historian Bob Zeller has devoted ...

An author with local ties will discuss her new Civil War book in two presentations Thursday. Tonya Graham McQuade will share excerpts from "A State Divided: The Civil War Letters of James Calaway Hale ...

The Civil War, an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and produced in conjunction with WETA, Washington, D.C., first aired in September of 1990 to an ...

It can be easy for someone to visit a Civil War site and feel like they’re in just another field. For historian Terry Heder, ...

(The book is readily available through booksellers.) Until 1913 ... slavery — threatening to split the Union. On the Civil War’s eve, questions about America’s future were especially ...

Civil War—writer-director Alex Garland's dystopian look at a fractured future America starring Kirsten Dunst—is new on Max this week. A24 released Civil War in theaters on April 12.

If you're a bookworm, Joseph-Beth Booksellers might as well feel like ... hear this 19th-century cemetery is home to a variety of Civil War statues, memorials and mausoleums.

It opened its doors in July 1995 in a pre-Civil War townhouse located just off The ... With Picks from Bestselling Authors ...

The author of “The Splendid and the Vile” chronicles the months after Abraham Lincoln’s election that set the stage for the Civil War ... from the American Booksellers Association, the ...