Lt. Richard Blazer was commander of a group of volunteers and former raiders, who like Mosby’s team, worked behind the scenes ...

Best-selling author Erik Larson’s latest book., “The Demon of Unrest” chronicles the timeline, and details, of America’s ...

Now, many years after her death, Tubman is officially a one-star brigadier general, according to The Associated Press.

Millions of words have been written about the American Civil War and there is nothing particularly new here ... Reviewer ...

How an obsessive hatred of immigrants and people of color and deep-seated fears about the empowerment of women led to the ...

A historian who has studied the post-Civil War era reminds us that culture wars drive turnout as well as partisanship. And the cure doesn’t always work as intended.

Algerian Kamel Daoud wins the Prix Goncourt for his novel Houris, a searing account of his country’s 1990s conflict.

There is a notable absentee from this year's international book fair in Algiers -- the work of French-Algerian writer Kamel ...

Katherine Vaz, author of the Civil War story “Above the Salt,” will have a meet-and-greet at 6 p.m. Nov. 19 at Jacksonville ...

The post-Civil War era was brought to life Saturday by actors portraying Grand Army of the Republic members. Union soldiers ...

Author Claire Messud will appear at Interabang Books on Nov. 17 at 2 p.m. to discuss her new book, This Strange Eventful ...

French-Algerian writer Kamel Daoud on Monday won France's top literary prize, the Goncourt, for a novel centred on Algeria's ...