He’s covered elections in every corner of America and co-authored a best ... the country has returned to a post-Civil War politics, when, as the saying went, people “vote as they shot ...

The three unmarked graves of Civil War veterans can be found in Chippewa Falls and the American Legion Post 77 is on a ...

What sort of teenage girl would steal the clothes from a man’s corpse and then join the army? One whose life is at rock-bottom and who will grab any chance to stay alive. The end of the civil ...

Terrorism experts Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware use historical and recent facts to try and answer that question.

Many now believe that the U.S. could descend into political violence. Some are joining survivalist communities, canning food—and buying guns.

It begs the questions—how common were blood transfusions during the American Civil War ... to be debated among physicians in the post-Civil War period, particularly during the First and Second ...

There are hundreds of headstones in the Forest Hill Cemetery in Chippewa Falls. But for Stephanie Benson and other members of ...

In this blog post, Devine details Americans' changing ... Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (New York: Knopf, 2008). Mark S. Schantz, Awaiting ...

Many Americans feared a second Civil War if Donald Trump, the Republican candidate, lost the 2024 US presidential election.

(Bettmann Archive) American football, which borrows liberally from soccer and rugby, was a post-Civil War invention. Adult White males lamented that their boys had gotten too soft. Much like the ...

A historian who has studied the post-Civil War era reminds us that culture wars drive turnout as well as partisanship. And the cure doesn’t always work as intended.