The American Civil War was the first major conflict ... from snapping even the most graphic of post-battle images to illustrate the horrors of war. Several of the images in this gallery are ...

Pittsburgh author Edda Fields-Black won the Pulitzer Prize this week for “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, ...

Harper's Ferry, West Virginia (top) and Chickamauga, Georgia (bottom) were the sites of two Civil War battles. Eliot Dudik In “Poem of Wonder at the Resurrection of the Wheat,” Walt Whitman ...

I have a book here.'” In his latest book ... during the Battle of Mobile Bay on Aug. 5, 1864. During this Civil War battle, it was discovered that Mobile Bay was booby-trapped by Confederates ...

In contrast to Roland, Smith devotes much more space to Johnston’s Civil War service. Smith draws his title from Johnston’s comment at the start of the Battle Shiloh, that he must “roll the iron dice ...