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 ...

That day was told by Budiansky through the eyes of nine people: Robert E. Lee, George B. McClellan, Jacob Cox, Dr. Jonathan ...

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

Warning signs of a looming civil war are palpable: incendiary language, fear-mongering, unchecked hate speech, school ...

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 ...

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

Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge Kathryn Mizelle cited the justice in blocking a long-standing method of enforcing the ...

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

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Historian and author Fergus M. Bordewich will discuss his new book “Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the ...

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

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

One sentence is all it takes to understand writer Ta-Nehisi Coates’ views on Israel. “On the last day of my trip to Palestine ...