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 ...

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 ...

Recently, I was afforded the opportunity to purchase a large collection of books relating to the Civil War from a local resident. As he and his wife prepared to leave the area for a retirement ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As an Amazon Associate, Military.com earns from qualifying purchases. The year is 2054. The United States is recovering from a destructive war with China. When the otherwise healthy president of the ...