The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...
Historical novelists Chris Bohjalian and Christina Baker Kline for a discussion about Bohjalian’s latest book, “The Jackal’s ...
"Lincoln’s Peace" examines the difficulty in turning wartime victory into solving the political and social problems that led ...
Richard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American ...
In August, Austin, the son of David and Elizabeth Ingall of Temperance, learned he was one of just 10 U.S. students selected for the annual Youth Leadership Team by the American Battlefield Trust.
Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second ...
Rebel Falls by Tim Wendel is the winner of the 2025 W.Y. Boyd Literary Award “for excellence in military fiction.” The book ...
This cover image released by Knopf shows “Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War” by Michael Vorenberg ... Vorenberg and Carwardine’s books remind us of the cost in lives in ...
Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Elsewhere in the country, parts of the rebel army ...
Andrew Fialka and Anderson Carman. Univ. of Georgia, $19.95 trade paper (216p) ISBN 978-0-8203-6955-6 Fialka, a history professor at Middle Tennessee State University, teams up with artist Carman ...
The Civil War was an extremely divisive time in American history that split the North and South into the Union and the ...