The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

Historical novelists Chris Bohjalian and Christina Baker Kline for a discussion about Bohjalian’s latest book, “The Jackal’s ...

While wandering the grounds of the Third Battle of Winchester in the spring of 2023, Chris Bohjalian peered over a still ...

Farnham-based, award-winning children’s author Ally Sherrick hosted a launch event for her latest book, Rebel Heart, at ...

Whenever you do an online search for the world’s most beautiful countries, there’s one place that always makes the list: ...

One of the techniques filmmaker Ken Burns harnessed so effectively in The Civil War was using the actual historical record—photographs, diaries, speeches—to "let the war tell its own story." ...

Editor’s Note: This essay series is written by Mercy Street's medical, historical and technical advisor, Stanley B. Burns, MD of The Burns Archive. At the time of the Civil War, as a result ...

historical landmarks, and cemeteries, to name a few. The most widely promoted myth of the Lost Cause philosophy was that the Civil War was not fought over slavery but rather over states’ rights.

One of the most powerful ways to bridge the gap between past and present is through historical fiction ... Set in post–Civil War Barcelona, this novel follows Daniel Sempere, who discovers ...