Edda L. Fields-Black is the winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History, and the author of “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the ...

Historical nonfiction has never really been my genre of choice. I love fiction for its ability to keep my attention with a lively narrative arc and complex characters and for ...

Every single generation is convinced, it seems, that their revolution will work, and their moment is uniquely in need of ...

Historian Patrick O’Donnell spotted an intriguing roadside marker and then spent six years researching a part of the Civil ...

In a theater at the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan one recent afternoon, a rehearsal for the coming opera “Intelligence,” about Civil War-era spies, was about to begin.

"A team of archaeologists-turned-spies brave Syria's civil war and infiltrate the ranks of ISIS to uncover the greatest art theft since WW2 and unravel a conspiracy that implicates Western museums ...

We interview legendary relic hunter Steve Phillips about his discovery of a priceless Civil War spy weapon: the coal torpedo. This rare sabotage device was used by Confederate spies to destroy ...

Unlike other spies, she refused to write a book of her Civil War exploits after the war and conducted few newspaper interviews. Video I began to discover the real Elizabeth and she surprised me.

During the Civil War, Bright added, “there were three [Union] spies associated with the cave.” “It’s common to have droughts throughout history. During the Civil War there was a serious ...