For example, most doctors of the Civil War era did not understand how disease was transmitted. Treatment of the wounded at Antietam typically was chaotic; drivers charged with taking wounded to field ...

Barberton native writes a historical novel about a young mother’s perilous trek to visit her wounded husband in a Confederate ...

Former Russian Prime Minister and longtime Vladimir Putin ally Dmitry Medvedev recently made a bold prediction that the ...

In his insightful book “A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War,” the historian David S. Brown makes a convincing case for the ...

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

Donal Ó Drisceoil is one of the editors of the book. The newly-published Atlas of the Irish Civil War: New perspectives contains a wealth of new material on multiple aspects of that terrible ...

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 ...

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

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

Arizona’s Civil War-era ban on nearly all abortions was officially repealed on Saturday. The western swing state has been whipsawed over recent months, starting with the Arizona Supreme Court ...

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

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