POTTSVILLE — Housekeeping time at the Schuylkill County Historical Society turned up a cache of books that’s delighting Civil War enthusiasts. Felicia Wolf, assistant director, found several ...

"Lincoln’s Peace" examines the difficulty in turning wartime victory into solving the political and social problems that led ...

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

“To speak as the slave would, to say that we are as happy for the Civil War as most Americans are for the Revolutionary War, is to rupture the narrative.” ...

Glymph scoured archives across the nation to ferret out heretofore unknown or little-used resources to tell the story of women in the Civil War, as can be seen in the numerous primary and secondary ...

Courtesy: Library of Congress Whitman was forty-two years old when the Civil War ... inspired by the war, when Lincoln was assassinated. Whitman was devastated. Just as the book was going to ...

Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army ... televangelist Jim Bakker resigns in wake of scandal If the book has a fault, it’s the meticulous detail and ...