The Lost Peace' by Jay Winik. The most serious attempt to evade America's Civil War was probably doomed to fail, said Adam ...

Among other things, “1861” portrays the waiting game that Maj. Robert Anderson faced as he commanded Fort Sumter and faced uncertainty as Lincoln took office.

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Essays on the Effects of the Civil War on the South in the Post Bellum Era. The author of Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South, 1865 to 1913 (1988), Dr ...

His latest book covers the period of time that nearly led to its disintegration. In “1861: The Lost Peace,” Winik covers the lead-up to the first shots being fired at Fort Sumter.

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – Windber native Bruce Clark has a natural passion for Civil War history. Two great-great-grandfathers were Pennsylvanians who served – and survived – as Union soldiers, he said.

The Lost Cause narrative was given a boost when the controversial 1876 presidential election proved so close that, to prevent a second Civil War, Republicans and Democrats struck a so-called ...

There’s a lot of denial in the Civil War-era book “The Lost Women of Mill Street,” the second historical novel by Akron native Kinley Bryan. Clara Douglas hasn’t heard from her betrothed ...

In “Longstreet,” Elizabeth R. Varon dissects the life and legacy of a Confederate general who became a devoted supporter of Reconstruction.