“The American Civil War has an official end date, and that end date is August 1866,” Vorenberg said. Notably, the official ...

When General Wharton’s great-great granddaughter, Sue Bell, and her parents were selling the home in the 1980s and rummaging ...

Freeman’s book Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War (Farrar ... And in his diaries and in his letters to his brothers and sister, he has a gripping, you-are-there ...

Many of the new artifacts carry the weight of history, but also the freedom stories and intimate histories of the families ...

On my periodic trips to Atlanta, I often stop at one of my favorite bookstores, A Capella Books near Inman Park. During my ...

Chris Bohjalian’s 25th novel, “The Jackal’s Mistress,” was inspired by the true story of a Southern woman who helped an ...

A standoff between the president and his deputy is threatening to tip the world’s youngest nation, South Sudan, into a fresh round of ethnic killing. The rivalry between President Salva Kiir ...

Two House Democrats sent letters to the secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force on Monday demanding answers over the ...

The Cumberland County Historical Society recently purchased at auction a letter from an eyewitness to the 1847 McClintock ...

Books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou’s famous autobiography, “I Know Why ...