It’s a classic American tale: A family member passes away, and relatives discover their long-lost historical artifacts in the attic. In Nancy Woodward’s case, the artifacts are the personal diaries of ...

STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — The Civil War diaries of a Union officer and letters by a Union soldier can now be read on a Mississippi State University website. The university said in a statement that the ...

FRANKLIN – The long-lost diary of prominent Nashville historical figure and Civil War officer Randal William McGavock is now back in Tennessee after decades spent on a closet shelf in a Cincinnati ...

George Templeton’s Strong’s journal traces a changing world—and his changing mind—throughout the crisis of the Civil War.

Jonathan W. White was in California on another book project when he happened across the diaries of George Buswell. In the online catalog it said Buswell had served in Memphis, which he was researching ...

SHERIDAN — On Jan. 16, 1865, John Prentice, a soldier in the Union Army in the American Civil War, participated in a battalion drill in Savannah, Georgia. In the three years prior, he’d witnessed and ...

Every historian might be a bit of a voyeur (or snoop). We like to examine other people's letters. Reading an honest and well-written memoir can be fun as well as revelatory. We listen enthusiastically ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Civil War diary kept by a onetime mayor of Nashville Randal McGavock has been returned to Tennessee 152 years after it was found by a Union captain when Fort Henry was captured ...

“It’s a handwritten eyewitness account of Lincoln’s assassination,” Susan Urban explained to DuMouchelle’s appraiser James Flannery about the small journal she brought with her to a recent appraisal ...

Analysis: The Irish Parliamentary Party MP, Home Rule activist and Irish Free State senator's diaries reveal his despair at the intensifying Civil War With pride, Esmonde told his colleagues: 'We have ...