The Oberlin Heritage Center and Oberlin Public Library will host a free discussion on the Civil War during a virtual event scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Aug. 14, according to a news release. Civil War ...

In compliance with your request I will give you my recollection of what I saw and heard from the time of leaving Gen. Lee's line covering Richmond and Petersburg to the close of his army's career at ...

You’re already familiar with the argument. Chances are, in this contentious climate we live in, you know what it’s like to have a fractured family, or to have to defend your beliefs. So this summer, ...

When bestselling author Erik Larson appears in Harrisburg next month, he’ll discuss his latest historical nonfiction book “The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of ...

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 ...

More than 60,000 books have been published about the U.S. Civil War since 1865. Historians have spilled much ink over the nation’s deadliest conflict, one that led to the deaths of more than 600,000 ...

The 1980s and early 1990s saw a spate of books on the subject of Why the South Lost the Civil War or Why the North Won. Several authors noted other countries had suffered worse military defeats than ...

“Lincoln’s Peace” offers a pair of fascinating what ifs. Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army, could it have banished all the residual slavery practices and ...

Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2023. Pp. xxiv, 396. Illus., tables, diagr., notes, biblio., index. $50.00. ISBN: 0807178004 A Detail Look at Field Artillery in the Civil War ...

James Lutzweiler of Jamestown, N.C., has written two new self-published books about South Carolina and the primary cause of the coming of the Civil War. The first is “The Train that Caused the Civil ...

The year is 1849. Martin Van Buren has just been sworn in for his fourth term as president. Every state from the Carolinas on south secedes from the Union. The U.S. Army occupies Richmond to keep ...