The Blue and the Gray. North vs South. Johnny Rebs vs Billy Yanks. Smoking muskets and booming cannons.

The push for universal public education across the United States began in the midst of the Civil War — on the Union-occupied ...

Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

Orange Park's Don Hillhouse, a "serious amateur" history researcher, scoured the National Archives for records of Union ...

A boy born into slavery in South Carolina was separated from his family at age five and later reunited with his father in ...