The presentation is just one of many special events surrounding the 250th anniversary of the nation that will renew the ...

By Tom Perry Last year, I wrote about James Ewell Brown “Jeb” Stuart and his influence on the university that became Virginia Tech, but he also visited the University of Virginia in 1850. He wrote to ...

Nor, despite our warning against prediction, did we doubt it would end badly for the South. The North had factories and ...

The mid-20th century had a stable political majority and an increasingly powerful presidency — and yet dodged the civil rights issue for decades. That doesn’t exactly light up a clear pathway out of ...

The Second Schleswig War of 1864 was a pivotal conflict that ignited the flames of unity and reshaped Europe's destiny. Germany, divided and yearning for unification, saw in this clash an opportunity ...

For America to be bereft of Lincoln’s leadership in the wake of the civil war, which had effectively ended with Robert E. Lee ...

America erased the histories of Black men like Henry Fordham, my great-great-grandfather. I was determined to find out the truth.