A personal attempt to find peace involves lowering expectations of others, an agenda which decreases disappointment, ...

Nancy MacLean, a professor of history and public policy at Duke University, addresses the Organization of American Historians ... It surged in the run-up to the Civil War, as enslavers and their ...

Freeman, Yale professor of history and American studies ... and editor who worked in Washington in the lead up to the Civil War. During his four decades in the nation’s capital, he crossed ...

Today was day two of the annual “Spring Civil War Encampment” at the Fort Scott National Historic Site. The public was ...

Mercer County Cemetery, the final resting place of nearly 200 Civil War veterans, hosted commemoration services for the 160th ...

Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their ...

Filmmaker Alex Garland wanted to make a different kind of war film. Would it be possible, he wondered, to take 90 minutes of ...

April 9 marks the 160th anniversary of the day America’s Civil War ended when General Lee surrendered to General Grant at the ...

April 9 marks the 160th anniversary of the day America’s Civil War ended when General Lee surrendered to General Grant at the ...

When we think of the American Civil War, the division between Americans in the North and the South comes to mind. But it ...

The American Philosophical Society's new exhibit for the 250th birthday of America documents daily life in Philadelphia ...

More than a year before Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt heard arguments from the civil rights leaders of the ...