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In the decades of the early republic, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten their opponents. As Elizabeth Varon shows, “disunion” connoted the disso …

‘Between these pages the reader will learn that North Carolina citizens did not idly stand by as their soldiers marched off to war. The women worked themselves into “patriotic exhaustion” through Aid …

In Fighting for Citizenship, Brian Taylor complicates existing interpretations of why black men fought in the Civil War. Civil War–era African Americans recognized the urgency of a core political con …

Prior to the Civil War, it was not allowed to have African Americans in the military, but some were accepted into the Navy. It was thought that they had neither the courage or the discipline to make …

Housewives, hard hats, and an Ohio town’s restoration of the radioactive wasteland in its backyard In 1984, a uranium leak at Ohio’s outdated Fernald Feed Materials Production Center highlighted the …

Explore the enigmatic world of America’s most secretive society with SKULL AND BONES: Inside America’s Most Mysterious Secret Society (2024 Guide for Beginners). Dwight Tenny takes you on a journey t …

The Fellers Called Him Bill is a story of the American Civil War by P.J. Kearns. It is a thoroughly engaging account of the Great Rebellion following one young mans incredible journey through it. The …

Isaac Johnson was born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, in 1844. His father, Richard Yeager, was a white farmer and his mother, Jane Johnson, was an enslaved African from Madagascar. His parents lived tog …

The Kennedy Incident November 22, 2013 will mark the 50th anniversary of the greatest crime ever committed in this great nation, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the president of the United Stat …

In the annals of American history, few years have been as transformative and tumultuous as 1861. It was a year that saw the nation split at its seams, brother set against brother, and the beginning o …