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 ...

Through the eyes of aspiring doctor Sashikala, Ganeshananthan paints a nuanced portrait of how youthful idealism can harden ...

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

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

The curriculum includes century-old books of U.S. history combined into an edited volume for Highlands Latin School ...

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 ...

An innovative, wide-ranging, thought-provoking account of class struggle in the US since the Civil War, Jon Jeter’s latest ...

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

Instead, we ignored history and, as a result, among so many other horrific things, left our weaponry—explosives, small arms, ...

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