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

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

Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway was one of the great 20th-century American novelists, and is known for works such as A ...

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 ...

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 ...

Professional historian and educator Kathy Wilson presented a program on Thursday at the Marshalltown Public Library entitled, ...

Robin Waterfield’s new translation of Thucydides’ “The History of the Peloponnesian War” offers clarity but little ...

In 250 years since the Revolutionary War started, the sacrifices of Indigenous soldiers have often been overlooked. Tribes in ...

The intertwined relationship between liberalism and socialism offers important lessons for today’s fractious intra-left ...

Coeur d'Alene American Legion Post 14 Adjutant Jerry Staub during an Oct. 30 interview discusses current efforts to install military markers on the gravesites of two veterans interred at Mica Peak ...