Without dwelling on it, “Lincoln’s Peace” mentions multiple times another failure during the Civil War that reverberates today: Newspapers during the Civil War often presented starkly different ...

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For the National Socialists, everything was political. All forms of culture — from theater and cinema to painting and ...

PITTSBURGH–As the Civil War was raging, thousands of American readers would wait to get news on the conflict every seven days from Harper’s Weekly, then the most widely-read periodical in the United ...

After packed-to-the-brim days in Philadelphia and New York City, the final stop of our East Coast train trip was here. Ashley ...

The book will be released five days ahead of its documentary counterpart by the same name, a six-part series on PBS ...

The civil rights era comes alive in these excellent, informative books for kids of all ages. From beautifully illustrated picture books to memoirs that depict the Jim Crow South to biographies of ...

Porcelain signs that once hung outside country stores, tin advertisements that decorated barn sides, and neon pieces that lit up main streets across Alabama – they’re all here, preserved as both ...

While Culpeper offers enough to fill a weekend (or longer), its central location makes it an ideal base for exploring other Virginia attractions. Charlottesville, home to Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello ...

Beyond Chattanooga’s storied Civil War history, the city bursts with vibrant neighborhood adventures, nature excursions and ...

Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) challenges visual documentation that excluded Black subjects from a ...

Warning: This article contains details of sexual violence that some people may find distressing Armed men are raping and sexually assaulting children as young as one during Sudan's civil war ...