Pvt. Lucien Weakley’s weathered headstone stands beneath a towering magnolia tree that is surrounded by the graves of thousands of other Confederate soldiers in Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery.

In the process, Americans were forced to reconfigure ideas about death and the Civil War body. Volunteer nurse Walt Whitman often wrote to his mother about his hospital visits and recorded his ...

Hess has produced once again an excellent history of a Civil War battle, encompassing the history of the operations that resulted in a major battle East of Atlanta on July 22 nd and 23 rd, the ...

Donald Trump has long vowed to keep the country out of "foreign wars," but California Democratic congresswoman Maxine Waters reiterated Thursday that she ...