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Vietnam has been called the first “television” war. But it has also inspired generations of writers who have explored its ...
Sgt. William Carney, whose Civil War heroism was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie "Glory," will get his own comic ...
Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched book about the Civil War era illuminates the lives of six Jewish Americans and their ...
So successful was the Lost Cause propaganda campaign that most Americans forgot the true meaning of the Civil War.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of George D. Pratt. The Smithsonian Institution came of age in the era of Manif ...
Everything Trump has said he was going to do, he has attempted to do. It's time to lay aside the ‘this is just negotiating tactics'. He's going to negotiate us right down into full fascism.” ...
A conversation with legal historian Mary Ziegler on her new book about the anti-abortion movement’s fight to establish ...
Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...
A.J. Schenkman’s plate always seems to be full. Not only is he a seventh-grade social studies teacher at John G. Borden Middle School in the Wallkill School District, he’s also one of Ulster County’s ...
But in her magisterial new history of the constitutional debates of the era, legal historian Alison LaCroix expands her (and our) horizons beyond the modest contributions of the Supreme Court of the ...
When Anderson Carman decided to collaborate on a comic textbook about the Civil War with history professor Andrew Fialka, he ...