It’s rare that a Stanford professor fully immersed in the bubble of academia is able to simultaneously pursue a scholarly research project and explore his family tree. Scott Sagan, professor of ...

George Pickett V, great-great-grandson of the legendary Confederate general, claimed in 1998 that Juno’s company appraised the family’s valuable Civil War-era letters and artifacts for a tenth ...

George Edward Pickett was raised in Richmond, Virginia, the eldest of eight children born to a prominent Virginia family ... to colonel and then brigadier general, he led a brigade under James ...