President Donald Trump botched 19th-century U.S. history on Friday, telling a crowd of supporters that the Civil War and ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! City University of New York professor emeritus Joshua Brown taught a class on the 1863 New York City Draft Riots and Civil War newspapers. He ...
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More than 160 years after the defeat of Confederate forces at Gettysburg, the Civil War continues to have an enduring hold on the American political consciousness – shaping the way we view the past ...
J. Mark Powell's new book, "Witness to War," tells the story of the Civil War objectively through the letters of ...
Recent events in Minnesota regarding ICE have provided the latest occasion for commentators to renew their predictions of an impending civil war. Whether a civil war is genuinely on the horizon, and ...
On Nov. 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful 272-word speech, later known as the Gettysburg Address, dedicating a new cemetery on the site of the bloody Civil War battlefield. While many ...