What was hygiene like during the Civil War? By contemporary standards, it was pretty grim for both Union and Confederate ...

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This is a column in two parts. The first is about a man with steel in his spine. The second is about people who could use some. Together, they explain something essential about our journalism. Robert ...

Every day holds a chance for a new adventure, an exciting event. Each day in history holds something significant, though ...

These Pennsylvanians played important roles in Civil War battles and in events surrounding the Civil War.- Levi Bird DuffLevi Bird Duff hated slavery so much, it cost him a leg ...

Against that backdrop, from MAGA’s viewpoint, the rest of the country’s response to the deaths of Good and Pretti looks a lot like the North’s response to the execution of John Brown. Good and Pretti ...

African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction, Oxford University Press, 2012, 264 pp., $30.54 ...

Nor, despite our warning against prediction, did we doubt it would end badly for the South. The North had factories and ...

Reaching for parallels in the Revolution and abolition, Americans are no longer debating conventional public policy. We are ...

More than a century before streaming platforms and superhero cinematic universes, American filmmakers were already chasing ...

This week, the Kremlin hit a grim milestone in its ongoing war in Ukraine. On January 11, 2026, the conflict reached its 1,418th day, the same number of days the Soviet Union's Red Army fought against ...

With 300,000 employees gone and collective-bargaining rights eliminated, the administration has hobbled organized labor. Did ...