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A conversation with legal historian Mary Ziegler on her new book about the anti-abortion movement’s fight to establish ...
Charles H. Walker settled in Columbia County after the war, and his descendants are committed to preserving and sharing his ...
Last month, Associate Professor of History Michael Vorenberg published his new book, “Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War.” The book challenges the traditional narrative that ...
Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...
Charles H. Walker's family is committed to preserving and sharing his diary, which has entries from September 1861 through ...
"I was trying to write very personal essays about people I feel strongly about, with as much passion and humor and poignancy ...
Earlier this month, as Democrats in Wisconsin and across the country celebrated a victory in the most scrutinized state ...
Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army ... Union Army force until it was ineffectual. If the book has a fault, it’s the meticulous detail and profusion ...
An example of such a post (archived) on social media was shared to X on Feb. 26, 2025, and read, in part: The Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was a Civil War-era death camp.
After losing three fingers on his right hand in the Civil War, Bennett could no longer ... an advanced copy of Dean Robbins’ latest book “Wisconsin Idols: 100 Heroes Who Changed the State ...
“Jack” Davis, a noted Civil War historian, gave a presentation titled “Gabe and Nanny – The Love Letters of a Confederate General and his Wife.” It was based on a 2022 book that Davis an ...
An attack on a bus in the Christian suburb of Beirut on April 13, 1975 helped spark the Lebanese civil war. Lebanon is still ... French journalist who wrote a book about the events of April ...