Folger Theatre at the Folger Shakespeare Library revealed the plays and playwrights for the fourth annual Reading Room ...

We talk with Tim McGrath, author of "Three Roads to Gettysburg: Meade, Lee, Lincoln, and the Battle That Changed the War, the ...

Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway was a great 20th-century American novelist known for works such as ‘A Farewell to Arms’ ...

Though many of us with diaries of our own pray they never meet the light of day, some go on to become indispensable historic ...

Long before he became a teacher at Adams High School, Félix Márquez-Snyder's mother saved him from a fatal future in El ...

I put that question to Stanley G. Payne, 91, a professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin. “Oh, 4 or 5,” he says. “Maybe 4 rather than 5. As a dictator he had many virtues in the ...

Trevilians was the largest cavalry battle of the Civil War. Arguments to the contrary have been advanced pointing to Brandy Station in Culpeper County, but Trevilians in Louisa County was ...

Soldiers who fought in the Civil War and World War I are buried in the Mica Peak Cemetery without proper markers honoring ...

Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thoughtby Bruno LeipoldPrinceton University Press, 2024, ...

A local history society is making waves by uncovering ‘hidden history’ about Kingclere in WW2 in their new book.

She had, indeed, in a sense, three brothers in the Confederacy, but they were half-brothers, with whom she had had little to do, and anyway the Civil War was notoriously a great divider of the border ...

Heretic, debater, wife-snatcher, subject of a posthumous cult: Pico della Mirandola certainly had a wild career. In this smart and rangy book, Wilson-Lee, a Cambridge don, paints a glorious portrait ...