Historian Patrick O’Donnell spotted an intriguing roadside marker and then spent six years researching a part of the Civil ...

The Lost Peace' by Jay Winik. T he most serious attempt to evade America's Civil War was probably doomed to fail, said Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker. But that effort at rec ...

When we retreat from reasoned, evidence-based scholarship on important subjects like science or history, the online fever ...

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Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice plantations when she came across the story of a raid in Beaufort that ...

Local historian is turning his collection and homegrown war lore into a book. Local Civil War history is told partially through the relics, like these at the Winery at Bull Run, Photo by Mike Salmon .

John Adams, a founder of the United States and its second president, privately expressed doubts that the republic would ...

In April, more than 200 Civil War and history enthusiasts from across the United States and Canada converged on the Andrew ...