Can anything new be said about the American Civil War? Though the causes and campaigns have all been examined by ranks of historians, many books are coming this spring for the 150th anniversary of the ...

STREATOR, Ill. -- The sky, fittingly, was blue and gray. Muted versions of both colors met and rested in the infrequent clouds, giving the day, despite its abundant sunshine, a sense of mission and ...

PATRIOTIC GORE (816 pp.)—Edmund Wilson—Oxford ($8.50). Historians never seem to tire of running over the same Civil War battlegrounds. They have fought and refought the great campaigns, while often ...

Memorial Day has its roots in the post Civil War observance of Decoration Day. On the 150th anniversary of that war, here is a look at the five acclaimed Civil War novels. 1. “Killer Angels” by ...

The year is 1849. Martin Van Buren has just been sworn in for his fourth term as president. Every state from the Carolinas on south secedes from the Union. The U.S. Army occupies Richmond to keep ...

A white Illinois teen attaches himself to a regiment of Black Union soldiers in the satirical Civil War novel "How to Dodge a Cannonball." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with author Dennard Dayle about it.

On the occasion of our being deep into the seventh month of the Civil War Sesquicentennial, and mindful of the fact that Congress has not yet passed Sen. Mary Landrieu’s bill to create a national ...

TO THOSE of us who for the last ten or twenty or fifty years have found the Civil War 1 a most fascinating subject, it has always seemed strange that only a relatively small number of our fellow ...

The second novel following Nathan Harris' bestselling "The Sweetness of Water," the story follows siblings emancipated from ...

All of a sudden, everyone is talking about civil war. Books are being written, pundits are pontificating, people are eyeing the cannons on the Statehouse lawn. I know the nation is polarized and all ...

1. James McBride’s John Brown is a Bible-thumping, “low-down son of a bitch,” a murderous zealot who looks “mad as a wood hammer” and whose infamous militia consists of a dozen of the “bummiest, ...

The year is 1849. Martin Van Buren has just been sworn in for his fourth term as president. Every state from the Carolinas on south secedes from the Union. The U.S. Army occupies Richmond to keep ...