Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

Sgt. William Carney, whose Civil War heroism was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie "Glory," will get his own comic ...

The Wharton family stumbled upon over a thousand Civil War documents dating from the 1840s to ... eventually creating a book with historian, Jack Davis, on General Wharton and Nannie’s love letters.

COLUMBUS—The Friends of the Polk County Public Libraries has announced the receipt of a large amount of books featuring Civil ...

The book challenges the traditional narrative that the Civil War ended neatly in April 1865 with the surrender of General Robert Lee to General Ulysses Grant at the Appomattox Court House, Vorenberg ...

It was in this month in 1865 the Civil ... Book.” He publicly blamed the Union’s catastrophic defeat at Bull Run on the fact the Union chose to fight on the Sabbath. After the war, he founded ...

A Quincy University history professor is giving a presentation on his book, with a Q & A session and book signing. J. Matthew Ward, PhD, assistant professor of history, will give a presentation on ...

When a Civil War general's great-great-granddaughter went rummaging through the attic of their old family home, they could ...

(WDBJ/Gray News) - What’s now known as the Glencoe Museum in Radford used to be the home of Civil War Confederate Gen ... 500 love letters between the general and his wife, Nannie Wharton.