In the fall of 1864 after his triumphant capture of Atlanta, Union Gen. William T. Sherman mobili...

In The Petticoat Affair, prize-winning historian John F. Marszalek offers the first in--depth inv...

Two months before the Civil War broke out, Emma Holmes made the first entry in a diary that would...

Born a slave in 1850s South Carolina and elected to Congress in the 1890s, George W. Murray appea...