American Civil War (1861-1865)

Scott Berg's '38 Nooses' resonates in Civil War backdrop

2012-12-07 14:00:00

-------------------- 38 Nooses Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier's End Scott W. Berg Pantheon: 384 pp., $27.95 -------------------- In summer 1862, as President Abraham Lincoln waged war to keep 11 Southern slave-holding...

John Keegan dies at 78; military historian wrote 'Face of Battle'

2012-08-07 00:00:00

John Keegan, a British military historian whose critically acclaimed books spanned ancient and modern warfare and included the bestselling "The Face of Battle," has died. He was 78. Keegan died Thursday at his home in Kilmington, England, according to...

12 places to visit in 2012

2012-01-29 00:00:00

New Mexico: This year, New Mexicans mark 100 years of statehood. But much of the state's appeal stems from its human history that goes back much further. (In 2010, Santa Fe celebrated 400 years of cityhood.) Explore here: the adobe architecture and art...

Book Review: 'To End All Wars'

2011-07-03 00:00:00

To End All Wars A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 Adam Hochschild Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 450 pp., $28 We think of Europe in 1914 as a continent all too eager for war — volunteers jamming recruiting offices, festooned soldiers...

Music review: Dawn Upshaw, Peter Sellars and George Crumb in the 2011 Ojai Festival

2011-06-13 16:33:25

The Reading Life: Geoff Dyer on 'The Missing of the Somme'

2011-08-18 16:35:20

Huntington Library sets shows on American history, Chinese mirrors

2011-09-01 16:33:08

A chapter that's all but forgotten: When the Civil War came west

2011-04-11 00:00:00

Things hadn't gone according to plan — do they ever in war? — and now, Lt. James Barrett was going to make them right. The cavalry officer and his dozen or so men would rescue his colleague, Capt. William McCleave, from those nettlesome rebels...

Lessons of America's Civil War

2011-03-06 00:00:00

Can anything new be said about the American Civil War? Though the causes and campaigns have all been examined by ranks of historians, many books are coming this spring for the 150th anniversary of the war's start on April 12, 1861, when Confederate...

Robert E. Lee, read your Sun Tzu!

2011-03-11 16:34:29

Kevin Costner to star in History channel's 'The Hatfields and McCoys'

2011-05-24 16:36:45

Visiting Virginia's Civil War sites

2011-04-10 00:00:00

THE BEST WAY TO VIRGINIA'S CIVIL WAR SITES From LAX, nonstop service to Washington Dulles (in Virginia) is offered on United, American and Virgin America; direct service (stop, no change of plane) is offered on Southwest, and connecting service (change...

The New England Civil War Museum and its library, works to convey the lessons of the American Civil War. The museum perpetuates the memory of the Civil War and of those who helped to save the Union, through the preservation and display of relics of that war.

2013-04-26 00:00:00

By most accounts, the first blood of the American Civil War was shed in Baltimore, when a group of Massachusetts militia, changing trains on their way to Washington, was attacked by Confederate sympathizers on April 19, 1861 -- just seven days after the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter.

2013-04-22 00:00:00

The sesquicentennial of the bloodiest single day of the American Civil War, the Battle of Antietam, will be commemorated by the National Park Service with a series of events through Sept. 22, and by the nearby town of Sharpsburg with its Heritage Festival Sept. 15-16.

2012-09-12 00:00:00