The Civil War claimed the lives of approximately 620.000 young men, tore families apart, and shaped a nation. The conflict holds immense historical significance. This restored and colorized collection ...

American Civil Warstakes readers beyond the battlefields and sectional divides of the U.S. Civil War to view the conflict from outside the national arena of the United States. Contributors position ...

Ye Chun’s first novel in English, “Straw Dogs of the Universe,” deals with some heavy themes: human trafficking, racism and violence. But writing it provided Ye, who was born in China and has lived in ...

The 1850s and 1860s in America saw the rise of the “sentimental domestic idea.” Women were held up as examples of purity, piety, and submissiveness. In the American antebellum period, precise and ...

One hope in posting this new collection of, primarily, hand-painted tintype portraits of African American men, women, and children is to have as many people as possible view the images, leading to ...

One hundred and fifty years ago, on January 14, 1868, an extraordinary convention opened in Charleston, South Carolina, the cradle of the Confederacy. That afternoon, a biracial group of men—most of ...

Montville ― Six of the best high school basketball teams in the state took over Mohegan Sun Monday for The Day Holiday Classic. New London girls won their matchup over E.O. Smith while the New London ...

This month’s submissions include a rare 19th-century American lithograph, an early Missouri coin silver mustard ladle, and a midcentury cabinet radio/record player, all descended through families.