American Civil War

Beyond the Civil War Hospital understands Reconstruction as a period of emotional turmoil that precipitated a struggle for form in cultural product...

The importance of the Civil War and Reconstruction in the history of the United States cannot be overstated. Many historians regard the Civil War a...

Abraham Lincoln grew up in the long shadow of the Founding Fathers. Seeking an intellectual and emotional replacement for his own taciturn father, ...

The American Civil War (1861-65) remains a searing event in the collective consciousness of the United States. It was one of the bloodiest conflict...

Thousands of books and articles have been written about the Battle of Gettysburg. Almost every topic has been thoroughly scrutinized except one: Pa...

The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civi...

From his noble childhood in the kingdom of Borno to being kidnapped into slavery, the inspiring life-story of Nicholas Said is an epic journey that...

In this provocative new work, Heather Cox Richardson argues that while the North won the Civil War, ending slavery, oligarchy, and giving the count...

On December 5, 1876, President Ulysses S. Grant transmitted his eighth and final message to Congress. In reviewing his tenure as president, Grant p...

The Remains of Glory, the sequel to Urdahl's Three Paths to Glory, follows two Minnesota Union soldiers and a Confederate officer from Tennessee th...