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

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

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

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

here are our top books about the Spanish Civil War. Or for more reading recommendations, find our list of the best history books of all time. In Spain in Our Hearts, acclaimed author and journalist ...

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

David Armitage is Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University and author of Civil Wars: A History in Ideas (Yale University Press, 2018) ...

A man looks at a Civil War history exhibit at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on May 7, 2019. (Ricky Fitchett/ZUMA Press) The historians’ vigil sharpens all the more with two ...

"All of us here at the Texas Civil War Museum invite you not to mourn, but to celebrate this collection, its presentation of American history and the willingness of the Richey family to share with ...

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 ...