During the Civil War, the young United States dealt with an unprecedented and overwhelming number of dead. The Ric Burns film is based on the book "This Republic of Suffering" by Harvard President ...

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 ...

The book opens with a chapter on the early history of Shute’s Folly ... Seven chapters cover Pinckney’s role during the secession crisis and the Civil War (1860-1865). Occasionally housing Union ...

I have a book here.'” In his latest book, “Hispanic Americans in the Civil War,” Schenkman devotes chapters to eight prominent Hispanic Americans who served in the Civil War for both the ...

Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army ... Union Army force until it was ineffectual. If the book has a fault, it’s the meticulous detail and profusion ...