The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In an excerpt from her forthcoming book, ‘The Last American Road Trip,’ Sarah ...

In concluding, the authors note that even in our time there are ... Readers will find that The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism offers a convincing look at how the Civil War was related to broader ...

Last month, Associate Professor of History Michael Vorenberg published his new book, “Lincoln’s ... some new details about the time period, he said. Vorenberg didn’t realize how “entangled” the Civil ...

If the book has a fault ... Take his advice next time.) Without dwelling on it, “Lincoln’s Peace” mentions multiple times another failure during the Civil War that reverberates today ...

Larson does not shy away from either of those facts, but his primary focus on Hammond’s political life ... Larson’s book. Although he is described by the sometimes-snarky Civil War diarist ...