In his acknowledgements, Merry shares that the book’s provenance was a quote from British popular historian Paul Johnson, who wrote in 1997, “Only two states wanted a civil war—Massachusetts ...

Hess, turns the spotlight on the theory and practice of combat tactics ... To sum up, Hess’ Civil War Infantry Tactics is an insightful, readable book. One gets a clear idea about how the American ...

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

I remember at one point a Trump supporter showing me, sharing with me, some crazy conspiracy theories ... author of books like The Undertow: Scenes From A Slow Civil War. His book The Family ...

Freeman’s book Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is out on September 11. She spoke with Smithsonian about what antebellum Congress was ...

Glymph scoured archives across the nation to ferret out heretofore unknown or little-used resources to tell the story of women in the Civil War, as can be seen in the numerous primary and secondary ...