Gordon C. Rhea, a Mount Pleasant resident, has authored an historical biography called “Stephen A. Swails: Black Freedom Fighter in the Civil War and Reconstruction.” The book, published by LSU Press ...

Shortly after 9/11, a group of Palestinian students had some questions for an American reporter about the lives and history of Muslims in America that sent him on a decadeslong journey, researching ...

Harvard history professor Gienapp (The Origins of the Republican Party) devotes a mere 70 pages of his brief new biography to Abraham Lincoln's prepresidential life; in a volume that "synthesizes ...

The princess in the castle -- The knight-errant -- The hero and the belle -- Marriage and maternity -- Rome again, home again -- Passion-flowers -- The Secret Six -- The Civil War -- A new world -- ...

BATAVIA — William Tecumseh Sherman is one of the Civil War’s more controversial generals. “What a complex guy this is. This is a guy you love and hate by turns,” said Derek Maxfield, an associate ...

That the place where the Civil War reached its turning point had become a shrine to the courage of those who fought to destroy the nation and preserve slavery should not have been a surprise. It has ...

One of the first Americans to become proficient at photography, Mathew Brady earned eternal fame—and poverty—for documenting the carnage of the Civil War. By 1854, he was already photographing famous ...

Tubman’s work didn’t end with the Underground Railroad. As a nurse in the Union Army and a spy against the Confederacy, she continued to fight for freedom. William H. Johnson based his portrait of ...

Clarissa "Clara" Harlowe Barton is among the most honored women in American history. A groundbreaking example of selfless volunteer service, Barton began her professional life as a Massachusetts ...

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2025. Pp. xvi, 288. Illus., maps, notes, biblio., index. $35.00. ISBN: 1469684233 A Regiment of the Iron Brigade, in War and After This book looks at the ...