Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

(p. 233) Readers will find that The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism offers a convincing look at how the Civil War was related to broader global movements. A useful book for the serious student of ...

Last month, Associate Professor of History Michael Vorenberg published his new book, “Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War.” The book challenges the traditional narrative that ...

Thirty years after the Civil War ... troops and the insanity of war. After the difficult fighting and seeing the carnage and death of so many comrades at Spotsylvania, he expresses a “horror of war.” ...

A.J. Schenkman’s plate always seems to be full. Not only is he a seventh-grade social studies teacher at John G. Borden Middle School in the Wallkill School District, he’s also one of Ulster County’s ...