Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

Rosencrans and the Union troops were led to the summit by a young man, 22-year-old David Hart, whose father owned the farm ...

The first military commander to oversee the occupation of New Orleans after the Civil War wasn't all good or all bad. But some things just stuck deeper in the collective memory.

The American Civil War, 1862-1865, saw 1,646 soldiers enlist from Sauk County; 285 of those died during that conflict.

There's a new effort to award the Congressional Gold Medal to 200,000 African Americans who served in the Union Army during ...