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

Filmmaker Alex Garland wanted to make a different kind of war film. Would it be possible, he wondered, to take 90 minutes of ...

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

The March meeting of the Rufus Barringer Civil War Round Table will be held on Thursday, April 17, at 7 p.m., at the Civic Club, on the corner of Pennsylvania ...

When Lytton Strachey set out to write “Eminent Victorians” in 1918, he sought to enliven the stuffy Victorian conventions of ...

Freeman’s book Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is out on September 11. She spoke with Smithsonian about what antebellum Congress was ...

The title of the book authored by veteran journalist Stephanie Baker speaks for itself. It’s about the story of retribution by the West, a ferocious financial war declared against Vladimir Putin ...

By Alexandra Jacobs In his new book, David Szalay offers unvarnished scenes from a lonely, rags-to-riches life. By Dwight Garner A new book by the neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod explores the ...

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By David Pierson Claire Fu and Vivian Wang China ... said Beijing had prepared for a trade war with the United States and that China could potentially come out stronger as a result.

The House Divided Project invited Fergus Bordewich, a Civil War historian, to campus to give the annual Wert Lecture on how the extreme division in the country manifests in Congress by focusing on the ...