“I don’t think any episode of American history gets more attention than the American Civil War.” But after sifting through official records, letters and diaries from “as broad a swath of people” as ...

Hamburg was, literally, a dry run for what came later; the aim was to maximise the number of barbecued civilians by, among ...

Kings and Generals launches its animated historical documentary series on the American Civil War by asking the essential ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, British troops faced off against colonial militias in the Massachusetts ...

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

It's the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, and it's still not clear who fired the first shot of the ...

In the Mexican American war, six child cadets, fought U.S. forces to the death at the Battle of Chapultepec... or so the ...

A move by a top Democratic Party official to spend millions of dollars through his outside political group to primary-challenge some older Democrats in blue districts is further igniting intra ...

The doughboys hated British chow (not to mention drinking tea instead of coffee). They got along better with the Australians, ...

With Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861, author and former editor of The American Conservative Robert W. Merry picks up where he left off ...