In his book Fear No Pharaoh, Richard Kreitner examines the reactions of six Jewish Americans to slavery and the Civil War.

For 250 years, the US Army has adapted as a living organization composed of operating units and institutional organizations ...

Most modern Americans cannot conceive of states seceding from the US, but in 1860, the majority of the people believed ...

This lesson compares the experiences, roles, and legacies of Mary Todd Lincoln and Varina Davis, the wives of the Civil War era presidents. The lesson, which features historian Kelly Hancock speaking ...

Sometimes difficult circumstances occasionally require some out-of-the-box thinking. Such was the history of camels in the ...

A patent model of a screw press is on display at the Two Mississippi Museums. According to Nan Prince, director of Collections at the Mississippi Department of ...

Oklahoma's recent maneuvers to deny public education to undocumented children epitomize the reactionary trajectory of US ...

1609 – The Bermuda Islands became an English colony. 1664 – New Jersey became a British colony. King Charles II granted land in the New World to his brother James (The Duke of York). 1755 – In North ...

If Elizabeth's dynastic 1921 marriage to James Blaine Walker -- grandnephew of her father's secretary of state and onetime Republican presidential nominee James G. Blaine -- was conventional, much of ...

Here's a list of Columbia mayoral, city council, and school board candidates, as well as propositions voters will see on the ...

Magnificent waterfalls, take-your-breath-away vistas, and glorious stretches of sandy beaches—Southern state parks are some ...