Against such a backdrop of government-sponsored cruelty, corruption and shameless profiteering at taxpayer expense, what, to ...

Attorneys for the Defense Department’s school system who are seeking dismissal of a lawsuit filed by military families argue ...

When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?

Books About the American Revolution. Last updated: July 6, 2022 by Regan McMahon. The American colonial period and the Revolutionary War for independence from Britain are rich subjects for kids. From ...

Our picks include new novels by Hazel Gaynor, Nell Stevens, Meg Waite Clayton, Norman Lock and Heather Clark.

Robert Smalls published a newspaper, established a transportation company and served five terms in the United States Congress ...

The Lost Peace' by Jay Winik. The most serious attempt to evade America's Civil War was probably doomed to fail, said Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker. But that effort at reco ...

As a Massachusetts senator during the years leading up to the Civil War, Sumner was a passionate and committed abolitionist.

While writing about a slave raid, author and researcher Edda Fields-Black discovered her own family tie to the raid in the ...

Richard Kreitner, a Wayne native, has written a new book, "Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery." He looks at the ways in which all groups, Jewish or ...