Author Darin Wipperman provides a tantalizing glimpse into the world of Berdan’s sharpshooters during the American Civil War.

Poetry has been an essential part of many countries’ popular culture for centuries. Italy, Russia, Iran, Chile, Poland, and Nicaragua are good examples, to name just a few. In these places, professors ...

A Missouri native who made her home in Texas, she drew on the Hill Country’s rugged beauty while writing westerns and historical novels.

Shutterstock Russell Gregory’s Murder at Cades Cove Russell Gregory moved to Cades Cove, Tennessee in the early 1840s from ...

I’ve had Whitman in mind this spring as we’ve watched the Trump administration and its Department of Government Efficiency ...

The poem that inspired the song, America the Beautiful, is 130 years old today, and it resonates more than ever.

Poems of the Great War 1914-1918 Publication date 1998 Topics English poetry -- 20th century, World War, 1914-1918 -- Poetry Publisher London : Penguin Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled ...

Before the Independence Day fireworks this week, try this short quiz on America’s popular books published during the ...

Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, “Report Submitted to Secretary of War Stanton, May 26, 1863,” in The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, ser. 3, vol.

To the editor: America is currently biting the dust with strife like we have not seen since the Civil War. Meanwhile, the good guys are standing on the sidelines with their hands in their pockets ...