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

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 ...

The author is not the first scholar to tackle the history of America—as in the American continent, not just the United States ...

Inspired by his scholarship and teaching at Brown, Seth Rockman uncovered an unknown facet of pre-Civil War history that he ...

A historian who loves war stories, Bernard Cornwell has written some of the best, most experted researched historical fiction ...

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 .

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

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

Penn Township author Ron Kirkwood spent 17 days in 2022 at the National Archives in Washington, DC, scouring hundreds of ...

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

Tickets are available to hear Atkinson talk about his newest book Monday. He'll appear downtown at the First Presbyterian ...