relics at the construction sites, learning what he could along the way. He is now an avid collector and local Civil War historian, in addition to being president at the Winery at Bull Run. “I’ve ...

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 ...

Visit interesting Civil War sites, sip craft beer at local breweries, and fly in WWII planes in this small Virginia town that ...

New Yorker humorist will discuss "How to Dodge a Cannonball" at the New York State Writers Institute on Nov. 11.

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 ...

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

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.

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

Actor and civil rights activist George Takei is continuing to reach new audiences with the historical lessons from World War ...

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 ...