A history professor has launched a podcast exploring how race, religion and community are symbolized by a Confederate ...
One researcher argues a general's 200-year-old Kentucky will, and others like it, support the case for present-day ...
America’s political parties weren’t supposed to wield the power they have today. In fact, George Washington warned us about ...
The Civil War was an extremely divisive time in American history that split the North and South into the Union and the ...
In some states, Grant deployed troops to maintain order and guarantee that African Americans and their Republican allies ...
Historian Benjamin Heber Johnson, reared in Houston, retells Texas history in a way that will appeal to a broad range of the state's readers.
March 8-9, 2025, marked the 163rd anniversary of the Battle of Hampton Roads. This battle, though tactically inconclusive in terms of the immediate aftermath, proved to be one of the most epic battles ...
This cover image released by Knopf shows “Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War ... a larger and ...
Liberals still haven't awakened from the dream of American unity — but the Puritans and their followers knew better ...
In his book Fear No Pharaoh, Richard Kreitner examines the reactions of six Jewish Americans to slavery and the Civil War.