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

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In an excerpt from her forthcoming book, ‘The Last American Road Trip,’ Sarah ...

So we have a history in which each chapter compares the Civil ... at how the Civil War was related to broader global movements. A useful book for the serious student of the Civil War.

Freeman, Yale professor of history and American studies ... Freeman’s book Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is out on September 11.

Last month, Associate Professor of History Michael Vorenberg published his new book, “Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War.” The book challenges the traditional narrative that ...

First and foremost is a man whose personal history looms large ... in the pages of Larson’s book. Although he is described by the sometimes-snarky Civil War diarist Mary Boykin Chesnut as ...

J. Matthew Ward, PhD, assistant professor of history, will give a presentation on his book, Garden of Ruins: Occupied Louisiana in the Civil War, at the Lincoln-Douglas Debate Museum at 128 North ...

When Anderson Carman decided to collaborate on a comic textbook about the Civil War with history professor Andrew Fialka, he ...

Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army ... Union Army force until it was ineffectual. If the book has a fault, it’s the meticulous detail and profusion ...