The works by Ms. Jiles include prizewinning poetry and richly told novels following the lives of those on the old American ...

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 ...

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

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

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A painting by Ismani Sun, a San Antonio artist, will be on prominent display at the African American Civil War Memorial Museum when it opens at its new location in Washington D.C.

That American Revolution/Civil War link is particularly true in York County, which sits on the Mason-Dixon Line, close to military movements, supply lines and bloody battlefields.

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The Vietnam War cast a long shadow across one of the most fertile periods of American filmmaking, and has led filmmakers for the half-century since to reckon with its complicated legacy.

Adam Gopnik reviews “Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War,” by Michael Vorenberg, and “1861: The Lost Peace,” by Jay Winik.

J. Patrick Lewis, illus. by Jim Burke, R. Gregory Christie, et al. Chronicle, $16.99 (44p) ISBN 978-1-4521-0119-4 Poet Laureate Lewis casts a wide net in these stirring poems about civil rights ...