Donald Trump may be overseeing and intensifying a planetary bankruptcy, a kind of decline and fall that hasn’t been part of ...

In a sense, the five proslavery settlers were casualties not merely of Brown’s bloody-mindedness but also of a law described by historians William and Bruce Catton as possibly “the most ...

After serving the Union cause as a pilot for the rest of the Civil War, he returned to South Carolina ... Lisa Elmaleh In recent years, a number of important books have chronicled the upheaval ...

Sgt. William Carney, whose Civil War heroism was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie "Glory," will get his own comic ...

The Spanish Civil War was a conflict that pitted the Republican government against Spanish Nationalists led by General Francisco Franco from 1936-1939. Families were torn apart as people took sides.

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 ...

I have a book here.'” In his latest book, “Hispanic Americans in the Civil War,” Schenkman devotes chapters to eight prominent Hispanic Americans who served in the Civil War for both the ...

and heroism at the dawn of the Civil War.” I took the book home with me for two reasons. First of all, I liked the sharp focus. The main narrative covers only about five months, from November ...

Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army ... Union Army force until it was ineffectual. If the book has a fault, it’s the meticulous detail and profusion ...

Actor Alec Baldwin warned his social media followers Tuesday that he believes the United States exists in a “pre-Civil War culture.” “Boy, you can see now that we are in a pre-Civil War ...

The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops ...