The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

Without dwelling on it, “Lincoln’s Peace” mentions multiple times another failure during the Civil War that reverberates today: Newspapers during the Civil War often presented starkly ...

Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second ...

Presented by the nonprofit Friends of the Library of Collier County, the lectures raise funds to help support Collier County Public Library system.

It had been listed in a record of 7,200 silent films classified as "lost" Sonja Anderson During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into ...

The Civil War, an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and produced in conjunction with WETA, Washington, D.C., first aired in September of 1990 to an ...

“Lincoln’s Peace” offers a pair of fascinating what ifs. Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army, could it have banished all the residual slavery practices and ...