Against such a backdrop, many of those rural residents began to organize what may have begun as an attempt to find economic advancement but eventually coalesced into what will become known as the ...

The January 2025 meeting of the Civil War Round Table of Gettysburg featured Dr. Christian B. Keller speaking to his book, “Southern Strategies: Why The Confederacy Failed,” published in 2021 ...

Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

Civil War surgeons learned fast. Here are a few of the MacGyver-like medical solutions that have had a lasting impact.

Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.

President Donald Trump took office with a promise to “immediately bring prices down.” But conquering inflation is tricky, and ...

The Colored Orphan Asylum is under siege. A cauldron of resentment, anti-authority, and racial tensions rise as the city ...

The little-known Civil War Battle of Greenleaf Prairie took place on June 16, 1863, near present-day Braggs and extended to ...