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We talk with Tim McGrath, author of "Three Roads to Gettysburg: Meade, Lee, Lincoln, and the Battle That Changed the War, the ...

Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway was a great 20th-century American novelist known for works such as ‘A Farewell to Arms’ ...

A student of historiography and the study of history, as well as history itself, Eric Foner would like yet another American Revolution, one which would fulfill the promise of Reconstruction when ...

Buried beneath masses of mangled bodies of countless innocents slowly pulled from the shrapnel and debris, their remaining ...

In September the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced a new, harder version of the civics test immigrants take ...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the country’s literature was widely considered provincial. Then Malcolm Cowley set ...

The Trump administration is officially taking steps to dismantle the Department of Education. The idea has been around for ...

Authors Johnny Smith and Randy Roberts explore Louis's personal fight during WWII and how he became a champion for Black ...

First, very few of the students I met, of any age, could pass the new citizenship test. Second, very few of the schools I ...

Abolitionists used hard facts to counter pro-slavery propaganda, forcing indifferent Americans to face ugly realities.

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