Kings and Generals begins a brand-new series on the American Civil War, starting with the crucial question: why did the South secede? This setup episode dives into the political, economic, and ...

Students chatted in the lobby of the Hayti Heritage Center in Durham last week, waiting for class to begin. Their subject? The Civil War. Michael McElreath called them to attention. McElreath works ...

JAMESTOWN — Local historian James Lutzweiler will present this month’s First Thursday History Program at the Jamestown Public Library at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. Lutzweiler will discuss two seemingly ...

Two Pottsville militia units, Washington Artillerists and National Light Infantry, were among the First Defenders to answer ...

Both the Union and the Confederacy believed God was on their side, using faith to justify their respective causes. Tyler Rice of Columbus, Ohio is a freelance historian specializing in religion and ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. As the deadliest war in United States history, the Civil ...

Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861, by Robert W. Merry. Simon & Schuster, 528 pages. With Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South ...

Out of guilt or amnesia, we tend to treat wars, in retrospect, as natural disasters: terrible but somehow inevitable, beyond anyone’s control. Shaking your fist at the fools who started the First ...