“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 ...

The novel opens with a bang, but there’s a thin, repetitive feel to the based-in-fact tale of a Confederate woman’s saving a ...

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.

The Battle of Worcester Society has donated The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1640-1660' to the Hive ...

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

A Massachusetts woman and Hokie whose ancestors founded Radford has donated more than 1,200 Civil War-era letter and ...

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 ...

The author from Vermont just celebrated the release of his 25th novel, which was inspired by a real chapter in Civil War history.