Boritt was born in Budapest in 1940 and survived World War II, although relatives were killed in the Auschwitz Nazi death ...

He survived the Holocaust and Communist rule in Hungary, arrived penniless in New York and made himself into a pre-eminent Civil War scholar.

He may be known as the Great Emancipator, but Abraham Lincoln was first and foremost a party leader.

The first shot of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War was fired by a man from DuPage County. Lt. Marcellus E. Jones of the 8th Illinois Calvary was on patrol outside Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, ...

It was a war fueled by colonialism, launched with the intent of humiliating a weaker country, fought in the name of revenge ...

Historians love to track what and how former presidents ate. Abraham Lincoln had his quirks much like many other famous American politicians.

Fitzhugh Brundage’s gripping new book, aptly titled A Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War, represents an essential contribution to this rethinking in its account of what was ...

Economist Robert Barro has questioned the necessity of fighting a war in this country to end slavery. In this week's Friday ...

When torch-bearing white nationalists marched in Charlottesville chanting, “You will not replace us”; “Blood and soil”; and ...

Gabor S. Boritt, renowned author, scholar of Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War, founder of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, and ...

​​Horace Greeley’s maternal ancestors came from Garvagh in Co Londonderry and settled in New England in the early years of the 18th century.