The American Civil War was one of the longest and bloodiest of modern wars. It is also one of ...
Born to a family of farmers, Lincoln stood out from an early age—literally! (He was six feet four...
Historian Greg Mertz grew up on the Shiloh battlefield. Attack at Daylight and Whip Them taps int...
A narrative history of the 1861 Washington Peace Conference, the bipartisan, last-ditch effort to...
From the author of 'D-Day' and many other works of history, comes a detailed history of the men w...
Amid the fearsome battles of the Civil War, both Union and Confederate soldiers were urged onw...
The 'magisterial' (The New York Times Book Review) second volume of Sidney Blumenthal's acclaimed...
The extraordinary life of Henrietta Wood--a formerly enslaved woman sold back into slavery, event...
The inspiring true story of an enslaved woman who liberated an infamous slave jail and tran...
Regarded as the turning point of the American Civil War, Gettysburg commemorates the three-day ba...
'Lincoln's wartime spiritual journey from heretic son and cold skeptic to America's first evangel...
Lifting the Chains is a history of the Black experience in America since the Civil War, told by o...