The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

"Lincoln’s Peace" examines the difficulty in turning wartime victory into solving the political and social problems that led to fighting in the first place.

Rebel Falls by Tim Wendel is the winner of the 2025 W.Y. Boyd Literary Award “for excellence in military fiction.” The book was published by Three Hills, an imprint of Cornell University Press in 2024 ...

Viewed thusly, the American Civil War was not a one-off, but part of a global revolutionary ... look at how the Civil War was related to broader global movements. A useful book for the serious student ...

Civil War America, a small number of Jewish slaveowners defended the practice. Other prominent Jews joined with abolitionists ...

Historical novelists Chris Bohjalian and Christina Baker Kline for a discussion about Bohjalian’s latest book, “The Jackal’s Mistress.” ...

Author and professor Michael Vorenberg joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book 'Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War'. ‘We are not powerless’: Voters are fired up at ...

The American Civil War is no exception, since there was no convenient peace treaty to lend it a conventional closing date. And how could there have been, since the Lincoln administration ...

"LINCOLN'S PEACE: THE STRUGGLE TO END THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR" by Michael ... an important addition to the multitude of books about the Civil War, begins with what most people believe to be the ...

Freeman, Yale professor of history and American studies ... Freeman’s book Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is out on September 11.

Scott Wallace, a New Hartford native and former O-D reporter, will lecture on his new book on Central American civil wars at Munson ... in the Crosshairs of War: On the Road from Vietnam to ...