Among other things, “1861” portrays the waiting game that Maj. Robert Anderson faced as he commanded Fort Sumter and faced ...

Lincoln, worried that conciliatory overtures toward the South would appear weak, employed a preinaugural strategy of ...

My late brother Dave was something of a hoarder, particularly of family mementos. When his house was cleaned out after his ...

James Lutzweiler of Jamestown, N.C., has written two new self-published books about South Carolina and the primary cause of ...

The award-winning author of four novels and numerous works of non-fiction chooses his favourite works of war reportage. His ...

More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with “April 1865: The Month ...