Civil War myths both big and small persist to this day. LiveScience clears up a few. As California highway slides toward sea, the fix will take billions ...

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 ...

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

Oxford University Press’ new academic boss Sophie Goldsworthy discusses its mission to elevate public discourse in 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 ...

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 ...

Pasta, rajma, candy bars... much of what we eat today was shaped by violence. Three books trace how food changes as borders are redrawn. And the joy, love, resistance that a hearty meal can hold.

The Lake County Genealogical Society next meeting will feature a journey back to the Civil War era. The Nov. 20 Zoom session will begin with a brief business meeting at 10 a.m. Following that, the ...

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

If you’re ready to commit, these long classics offer a journey unlike any other. They are filled with complex characters, ...

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 ...

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 ...