During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

Although the Battle of Antietam is a much-studied encounter, Budiansky’s consideration of nine people caught up in the battle and its aftermath is thoughtful and insightful.

But he feared the Civil War would shatter his beloved nation ... on a list of wounded soldiers in the newspapers in December 1862, Walt hurried south to find his brother. Whitman was relieved ...

The year 1862 opened inauspiciously for Union and Confederate forces facing each other in ... Refugee life in the second year of the Civil War was laborious for Judith Brockenbrough McGuire, her ...

Courtesy: Library of Congress From 1861 to 1865, the Civil War ravaged America ... a local farmer's well on a federal burial detail in 1862 1,733 — Approximate number of American battlefield ...

In Les Damnés, Roberto Minervini plunges into the heart of the winter of 1862, where American soldiers in the midst of the ...

For the three Latino kids transported to 1862 Mexico in Emma Otheguy’s latest novel, the outcome of the American Civil War ...

Shiloh National Military Park in Tennessee was the site of a bloody Civil War battle to control the Confederate Railroads. Shiloh National Military Park encompasses much of the April 1862 Civil ...