On the C-SPAN Networks: Joseph Wheelan is an Author with seven videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2005 Speech as a News Editor for the Raleigh, NC Bureau in the Associated ...

2010-08-21T11:59:32-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/124/295100-m.jpgJoseph Wheeelan talked about his book Libby Prison Breakout: The Daring Escape from the ...

TERRIBLE SWIFT SWORD: THE LIFE OF GENERAL PHILIP R. SHERIDAN By Joseph Wheelan Da Capo Press, $26, 362 pages If Ulysses Grant was the prototypical Dwight Eisenhower, and if William T. Sherman ...

Military historian Wheelan (Midnight in the Pacific) draws on U.S. and Japanese sources to deliver an encyclopedic chronicle of the April 1945 invasion of Okinawa. American forces seeking to establish ...

If the title of this book seems familiar, perhaps it’s because the late historian Bruce Catton first used it in his great Centennial History of the Civil War a half-century ago (and Catton borrowed it ...

It was just 150 years ago this spring, the span of a couple of human lifetimes, when the Union Army of the Potomac plunged into the Wilderness of northern Virginia where Robert E. Lee was waiting with ...

150 years ago this spring the American Civil War finally ended after four years of bloodshed, turmoil, and heartaches uncountable. More than 700,000 young men lay dead, with tens of thousands more ...

Former AP reporter and editor Wheelan (Jefferson’s War), like all biographers of Sheridan (1831–1888), is handicapped by the destruction of the general’s papers in the Chicago fire of 1871. He ...

Reviewed by Michael L. Ramsey MICHAEL L. RAMSEY is president of the Roanoke Public Library Foundation. The Overland Campaign of 1864 was the first time that American Gen. Ulysses Grant and Confederate ...

What is the proper role of an ex-president? Should he retire to enjoy his newfound freedom from public life, write his memoirs and, perhaps, attend official functions as might be asked of him? Most ...

Which former American president served as a diplomat to several countries, built the Smithsonian Institution as we know it, dabbled in astrology and the arts, and returned to Congress as a champion of ...