Foote provides students and scholars with a deeply researched, even handed treatment of this little understood aspect of the war. This reviewer highly recommends Rites of Retaliation, which the ...

You might think a movie about a second American civil war would be a thinly veiled Trump story. It’s not — and it’s better for it. by Zack Beauchamp. Apr 12, 2024, 11:15 AM UTC ...

That’s the question writer-historian Shelby Foote tries to answer in Ken Burns’ landmark 1990 documentary The Civil War. ... “Fuck yeah!” as one character ran over another with a car. I know a lot of ...

Explore the American Civil War's history, causes like slavery and states' rights, key events including Gettysburg and Antietam, and the war's lasting impact on the United States ...

Here’s what happened in April 1861, leading up to the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, which spurred the launch of the American Civil War.

The Civil War changed the social, economic, and political landscape for women from every walk of American life—perhaps nowhere more so than in the field of nursing. Before the war, most nurses ...