As the president prepares to host Les Mis at the Kennedy Center, a Hugo biographer imagines the French author’s perspective.

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

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

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

There are quite a few Civil War-related movies that aim to be realistic, including Gettysburg, Fort Apache, and The Outlaw ...

Born in Maryland to free Black American parents, Benson had emigrated with his family to the West African colony at the age of 6. By the outbreak of the Civil War, in April 1861, he was one of the ...

Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.