As voters go to the polls in the US tomorrow to elect their 47th president, Americans live in the shadow of Donald Trump’s ...

Many became involved in the Civil War. Musicians, nurses, spies, and vivandières all had their parts to play. Before the war ...

How could Americans be such nice and decent people and support someone so debasing, so deranged, so hate-filled? It was the ...

If nothing else, the age of Trump has made abundantly clear that the post-World War II political consensus in America is over ...

These words were the parting wishes and hopes of his second inaugural address, delivered on March 4, 1865, shortly before the ...

The parallels between our situation and that of seventeenth-century England abound—and so do the contrasts and ironies.

“The end of the war is clear-cut. The only thing that is not clear is the means by which it’s achieved and the timing,” Chris ...

An 1866 photograph of objects kept by soldiers at an infamous prison offered a glimpse of wartime horrors. A new book ...

If reelected, Trump would only be the second president to serve non-consecutive terms after Grover Cleveland in the late ...

Hamilton County has a rich history when it comes to the American Civil War.

There has been a lot written and spoken about the Hammond Hospital at Point Lookout and Oct. 29 at the Leonardtown Library ...

Virginia did not allow Black residents to vote until after the Civil War. But during the war, a group of Black soldiers in ...