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Despite a Union advantage in men and resources, the Confederates dominated in the early months of the Civil War. Only one federal general seemed to ha...

Due to a quirk in the calendar in the year 1849, one school of thought contends that Missourian David Rice Atchison deserves to be...

Americans are familiar with Civil War land battles—but much less so with the war at sea, from the development of ironclad warships and submar...

If George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are the saints in America’s civil religion, then the 29th president, Warren G. Harding, is o...

Even for those of us unfamiliar with history, the very name “Gettysburg” suggests a monumental clash of armies. But beyond the chaos of the battle...

A century after his inauguration, President Woodrow Wilson remains among the most influential figures of the 20th century—and o...

The country duo Granville Automatic performs songs from An Army Without Music, a recording project in which each song is...

Jeffrey Frank discusses his new book Ike and Dick, which examines the 20-year political and private rela...

Long before the Civil War began violence was commonplace along the Missouri-Kansas border. There a recurring cycle of robbery, arson, torture, murd...

On the 150th anniversary of William Clarke Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, Tony R. Mullis of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff...