Review by Richard Norton Smith Read the review During the late 18th century, a flurry of social, political and economic changes offered many a new vision of personal autonomy and equality. Review by ...

Among the millions of World War II veterans were seven future U.S. presidents. Some only narrowly survived the experience.

In Brassroots Democracy, author Benjamin Barson presents a “music history from below”, embracing the Haitian revolution, post-civil war reconstruction and early jazz. The term “brassroots democracy” ...

Villanova University history professor Judith Giesberg has written a book detailing the struggle that former enslaved people ...

America’s first IRS commissioner helped raise the vast sums needed to wage the Civil War and was a strong advocate of racial equality.

Robert Colby is a historian at the University of Mississippi. His first book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil ...

The IJ is reprinting some of the late Beth Ashley’s columns. This is from 2007. Walking to my front door, I admire the lilies ...

If there is one theme that spans the entire history of The Journal, it’s this: Hudson County becomes a better place when it ...

Newmark's book Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons ... through Abbott's archival papers and journals at the Toronto Public Library ...

Jones describes in her book “Birthright Citizens,” the question of citizenship was foremost on the minds of abolitionists and free Black people in the years before the Civil War. Meeting in ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Peace prospects look bleak in Myanmar as a civil war rages despite international pressure on the military four years after it seized power from an elected civilian government. The ...

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated 160 years ago. There had been four years of terrible conflagration and the loss of thousands of lives. I have chosen to honor Black History Month by featuring two of ...