“The American Civil War has an official end date, and that end date is August 1866,” Vorenberg said. Notably, the official ...

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The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

Freeman, Yale professor of history and American studies ... Freeman’s book Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is out on September 11.

For all that, New Market Heights is little more than a footnote in Civil War history—a battle ... National Battlefield who has written several books on the Civil War. “The fact that there's ...

On my periodic trips to Atlanta, I often stop at one of my favorite bookstores, A Capella Books near Inman Park. During my ...

"We’re hoping American History TV does for history enthusiasts what Book TV has done for non-fiction book lovers." Gettysburg College Civil War Institute director Peter Carmichael talked about ...

Whenever you do an online search for the world’s most beautiful countries, there’s one place that always makes the list: Spain. With its vibrant history, rich culture and dramatic landscapes, this ...