Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours.

COLUMBUS—The Friends of the Polk County Public Libraries has announced the receipt of a large amount of books featuring Civil ...

William Harvey Carney actions amid some of the most intense combat of the Civil War would earn him the respect of his fellow ...

The Spanish Civil War was a conflict that pitted the Republican government against Spanish Nationalists led by General Francisco Franco from 1936-1939. Families were torn apart as people took sides.

Sgt. William Carney, whose Civil War heroism was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie "Glory," will get his own comic ...

Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched book about the Civil War era illuminates the lives of six Jewish Americans and their ...

What happened on April 13, 1975, would change the course of Lebanon. An attack on a bus in Beirut plunged the country into 15 years of civil war.

In his book, Bouverie lays clear both its strengths and its weaknesses. Its strength was their common enemy; its weakness was their irreconcilable post-war aims. Roosevelt passionately believed in ...

The book tells the true story of Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, the highest-ranking American POW of World War II. Jonathan Horn: Gen. Wainwright was a gritty cavalryman who grew up in Montana not far ...

as in the Congo civil war, to engaging in combat operations to militarily change the situation on the ground. It’s an interesting account and deserves a fuller treatment. This book is a welcome ...

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 ...

Submitted Photo Pictured is the statue of Governor Reuben Fenton that stands outside the Fenton Museum, with the words of his proclamation engraved below him. April 9 marks the 160th anniversary ...