A Civil War painting depicting Vermont soldiers has returned to the Green Mountains after being rediscovered at a Texas ...
Ken Burns’ new PBS series, The American Revolution, reframes the founding war as a brutal, chaotic conflict fought on ...
Historians say that Sarah Emma Edmonds exaggerated many aspects of her wartime experiences. Still, she bravely served in the Union Army, becoming one of hundreds of women who fought in the conflict in ...
On July 8, 1862, 150 years ago, during the American Civil War, an important meeting occurred between Commander-in-Chief Abraham Lincoln and his leading Union general, George B. McClellan. It took ...
The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous Confederate States of America, and so far were able to fight the Union Army.
Jeffrey Rosen, lawyer and U.S. Constitution scholar, has written the second book in a series of constitutional contemplations, “The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting ...