Historian Jay Winik writes about the leadup to the outbreak of the Civil War in “1861: The Lost Peace.” The' Andrew DeMillo ...

When Rob Edwards started telling people he was writing a comic book about South Carolina Civil War hero Robert Smalls, he’d ...

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Marion Harland and Christine Herrick were a mother-daughter duo. Marion Harland was actually a very famous writer in the late ...

When my son was born almost two years ago, we held a small hu plig or “soul-calling” ceremony to welcome his spirit to the ...

Alternate history writing looks at "what if" scenarios ... both sides contested the results and America fell into a dark civil war. Some of the screenshots feel so real that it seems necessary ...

Susan Brownmiller, a prominent feminist and author of the 1960s and ’70s whose “Against Our Will” was a landmark and ...

When it comes to historical fiction books about war, the options are endless. Whether you want to read about The Civil War, ...

A bloody civil war and the death by suicide of an ousted president served as inspiration for Isabel Allende’s most recent novel, “My Name is Emilia del Valle.” ...

With the Oval Office looking more like a middle school classroom every day, let’s recall the way, once upon a time, we ...

As founding editor of The Texas Observer, he fought bigotry and exposed corporate greed, political chicanery and government ...

The Civil War is available to stream on pbs.org and ... that we were constantly writing other things. - Jeff is one of the great American narrative historians. His sort of effortless grasp of ...