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General Joseph E. Johnston was in command of Confederate forces at the South's first victory—Manassas in July 1861—and at its last—Bentonville in A...

A leading historian of both the American Civil War and American naval history takes a fresh look at Franklin Buchanan, the U.S. Naval Academy’s fir...

Ubiquitous and enigmatic, the historical Lincoln, the literary Lincoln, even the cinematic Lincoln have all proved both fascinating and irresistibl...

Ubiquitous and enigmatic, the historical Lincoln, the literary Lincoln, even the cinematic Lincoln have all proved both fascinating and irresistibl...

The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln remains one of the most prominent events in U.S. history. It continues to attract enormous and inten...

From America's preeminent naval historian, the first full-length portrait in over fifty years of the man who won the war in the Pacific in World Wa...

There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn ...

From America's preeminent naval historian, the first full-length portrait in over fifty years of the man who won the war in the Pacific in World Wa...

Seventy years ago, more than six thousand Allied ships carried more than a million soldiers across the English Channel to a fifty-mile-wide strip o...