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 ...

Can anything new be said about the American Civil War? Though the causes and campaigns have all been examined by ranks of historians, many books are coming this spring for the 150th anniversary of the ...

"The First Eight" explores the pivotal journey of the state's first Black congressmen who served after the Civil War.

That fusion of Jewish biblical narrative and American destiny shaped the moral foundation of this country. Benjamin Franklin ...

STREATOR, Ill. -- The sky, fittingly, was blue and gray. Muted versions of both colors met and rested in the infrequent clouds, giving the day, despite its abundant sunshine, a sense of mission and ...

Louie Gallo’s work sometimes encircles him much like the Civil War generals he researches tried to do to their enemies more than 150 years ago. “That’s actually what I love about this job: the moments ...

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 ...

PATRIOTIC GORE (816 pp.)—Edmund Wilson—Oxford ($8.50). Historians never seem to tire of running over the same Civil War battlegrounds. They have fought and refought the great campaigns, while often ...

Shenandoah University’s McCormick Civil War Institute has published its first book—one that chronicles a Union soldier’s wartime experience and his beliefs on war, politics and the homefront. “So Much ...

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, ...

A book stolen by a Union soldier during the Civil War has been returned to Washington and Lee University in Virginia, 145 years after it was removed. A friend of one of the soldier's descendants gave ...

Host Bob Edwards talks with Charles Bryan, Jr., of the Virginia Historical Society, about a new book he's co-edited about the Civil War. Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey is written and ...