West Virginia is chock full of history, not the least of which is this local watering hole built where two U.S. presidents ...

Timothy Smith, an award-winning author of the Civil War in the West, offers us this look at the life and wars of Albert Sidney Johnston, the first Confederate commander in the theater, whom he ...

An enormous cache of recently discovered Civil War letters and other 19th century documents has been donated to Virginia Tech by ... It was based on a 2022 book that Davis and Bell co-authored ...

(WDBJ) - What’s now known as the Glencoe Museum in Radford used to be the home of Civil War Confederate ... just the book that they wrote,” said Aaron Purcell, the Director of Virginia Tech ...

Ambrose Burnside's roller-coaster military career included early Civil War successes ... He grew up in Indiana and attended West Point. By the time he'd graduated in 1847, Burnside had adopted ...

In his latest book, Gettysburg National Park Service Ranger and adjunct ... much as they did for most major battles in the war. Harman does an excellent job in showing readers the ways in which ...

Last month, Associate Professor of History Michael Vorenberg published his new book, “Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War.” The book challenges the traditional narrative that ...

One of the major accomplishments during the Civil War was the establishment ... At the first major land battle of the war on July 16, 1861 in Virginia at Manassas (Bull Run), two unproven green ...