It’s hard to know where to start when exploring works by famous African-American authors. That’s why we’re spotlighting some ...

Night Flyer,” about Harriet Tubman, and “Nat Turner, Black Prophet” stress the importance of religion to their subjects ...

A look at the people and events that shaped the Civil War and Reconstruction. Covering American History C-SPAN style: with event coverage, eyewitness accounts, and discussions with authors ...

Only a master storyteller like Erik Larson could turn the five tumultuous months leading up to the Civil War into "The Demon ...

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

Tonya Graham McQuade will share excerpts from "A State Divided: The Civil War Letters of James Calaway Hale and Benjamin ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I am a cable news contributor and professor of journalism. The Republican Iowa Caucus is in the rearview mirror and the 2024 presidential ...

W.E.B. Du Bois, American sociologist, author, activist and co-founder of ... His father enlisted during the Civil War as a private in a New York regiment of the Union army. He appears to have ...

Joshua Zeitz, a Politico Magazine contributing writer, is the author of Lincoln's God ... In real world history, the Civil War devastated the Confederate states. Not only were more than one ...

Dr. Court Carney, professor in Stephen F. Austin State University’s Department of History, authored and is set to publish the book, “Reckoning with the Devil: Nathan Bedford Forrest in Myth and Memory ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! An introduction to the 1860 election is featured. Author and history professor Rachel Shelden talked about the issue of slavery at the time, the ...

Tyler O'Neil is managing editor of The Daily Signal and the author of two books ... s in for very rough seas ahead. He says a civil war in the U.S. is far more plausible than most people think ...