On my periodic trips to Atlanta, I often stop at one of my favorite bookstores, A Capella Books near Inman Park. During my ...

Freeman’s book Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is out on September 11. She spoke with Smithsonian about what antebellum Congress was ...

“Years ago, Tony Horowitz wrote a remarkable book called ‘Confederates in the Attic,’ wondering why so much of the South was still fighting the Civil War,” Bohjalian tells host Kerri ...

Thomas Jefferson Claimed He Introduced Bill to Free Enslaved Blacks 100 Years Before Civil War. Was He Lying? Both the documentary and the book, of which PEOPLE can exclusively share the cover ...

This cover image released by Knopf shows “Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War” by Michael Vorenberg ... death on movie set If the book has a fault, it’s the ...

Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second ...

Although perhaps not the most important post in the Civil War, Holding Charleston by the Bridle gives us some interesting insights into America coast defense engineering and life in a coastal fort ...

Now 160 years after the Civil War, many of our fellow citizens accuse our legacy news media of also contouring their reporting to mesh with their own institutional viewpoints and those of their ...