Sgt. William Carney, whose Civil War heroism was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie "Glory," will get his own comic ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

Widely known for his books about local ... it’s usually from a famous utterance during the Battle of Mobile Bay on Aug. 5, 1864. During this Civil War battle, it was discovered that Mobile ...

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In an excerpt from her forthcoming book, ‘The Last American Road Trip,’ Sarah ...

For 250 years, historians have argued over who fired first at the Battle of Lexington, when Massachusetts militiamen faced British soldiers about 20 miles west of Boston.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with author Rick Atkinson in Lexington, Mass., about the first book of his forthcoming trilogy about the American Revolution, "The British are Coming." ...

Daniel Tyler, commanding his lead division, to probe the roads ahead—not to start a battle, but to make ... Furgurson has written four books on the Civil War, most recently Freedom Rising.

Nonfiction: A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian brilliantly reimagines the enduring conflict between the two Americas.

Knowles says her work has been well received by Civil War scholars ... old maps and a dense 1859 survey called The Iron Manufacturer’s Guide (“one of the most boring books on earth ...