In the next 56 minutes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar of the Civil War, slavery, and of Frederick Douglas, offered a ...

In 1940 the first Civil War Roundtable was founded in Chicago. The Lehigh Valley’s is named the Civil War Roundtable of ...

Bruce Anderson, an African American war hero buried in Amsterdam, fought alongside a Canajoharie white man, Zachariah Neahr, in a daring mission during the battle of Fort Fisher, North Carolina, near ...

Alternate history writing looks at "what if" scenarios; What if the Soviet Union won the Cold War? What if the Roman Empire never fell? It's not just interesting escapism; it also allows readers to ...

When the Confederacy captured the Ironclad uss Indianola during the American Civil War, the Union's Rear Admiral David Dixon ...

Adam Goodheart’s new book, 1861: The Civil War Awakening, has been widely reviewed as a kind of quirky history, a focused look at “the more obscure corners of antebellum America,” as the New York ...

President Abraham Lincoln signed the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation 162 years ago this week. To celebrate, dozens of people gathered for the unveiling of a new presidential statue outside the ...

The Allentown Art Museum’s newest exhibit is for those who love the intersection of art and history. On display now through Oct. 26, the “Cutting Edge” exhibit features 30 American quilts, some of ...