Fitzhugh Brundage’s gripping new book, aptly titled A Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War, represents ...

Discover the fascinating origins and meanings of Coventry's place names including Styvechale (or Stivichall), Stoke, Tile ...

Gabor loved teaching and was a dedicated professor. In 1978, he published his first book, Lincoln and the Economics of the ...

Reaching for parallels in the Revolution and abolition, Americans are no longer debating conventional public policy. We are ...

BY WAR’S END, the pipes had delivered roughly 206 million gallons—enough to fuel about 14 million jeeps for 300 miles each, ...

Tiny Lebanon sits on one of the largest gold reserves in the Middle East and its government is weighing whether it can use ...

GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — History professor Gabor S. Boritt, a Hungarian immigrant to the United States who wrote widely about ...

In an idyllic corner of an English field, archaeologists uncovered a pit filled with skeletons that bore the signs of violent ...

On March 27, 1829, a wealthy white planter and businessman named Richard Fordham purchased four enslaved African Americans ...

In the 13th century, England was marred by internal strife known as the Second Barons' War (1264–1267). This civil conflict pitched the barons, led by Simon de Montfort, against King Henry iii and his ...

Nor, despite our warning against prediction, did we doubt it would end badly for the South. The North had factories and ...

PART of the answer to this depends on what you mean by “history” and “historical facts.” Does a tree falling in the forest ...