Roughly 14,600 Union soldiers fought about 12,500 Confederates, Carol Kettenburg Dubbs wrote in her 2002 book, “Defend This Old Town.” The number of Union killed, wounded, captured or missing ...

"John Ericsson had, not a mean streak, but if you upset him, he wasn't going to forget," Peters said, pointing to a book ... the Civil War with the USS Monitor, a concept he had originally pitched to ...

Archaeologists found 4 Civil War Confederate soldiers' remains in ... Carol Kettenburg Dubbs wrote in her 2002 book, “Defend This Old Town ... “We want it to be ironclad,” he said.

Less than six months into U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term, his administration’s foreign policy has generated ...

Penn Township author Ron Kirkwood spent 17 days in 2022 at the National Archives in Washington, DC, scouring hundreds of ...

A short History Clip of how the Ironclad ships were used during the Civil War. And the battle between the Css Virginia and the USS Monitor. The Civil War history runs deep in Virginia!

Dr. Vincent Venturini has produced a courageous, well-written, well-documented and well-sourced book on the lifespan of Arabelle Daniel of Jackson.

Frey recounted several, important events in Centreville’s history – including George Washington staying here as a young surveyor, the devastation caused by the Civil War, and Lee Highway ...

A white Illinois teen attaches himself to a regiment of Black Union soldiers in the satirical Civil War novel "How to Dodge a Cannonball." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with author Dennard Dayle about it.

Gergel’s book tells the story of huge miscarriages of justice in the years following World War II, and one of the central characters, a federal judge born and bred in Charleston, was not just a ...

Books are disappearing from shelves again – this time at the more than 100 schools serving the children of active-duty and civilian military personnel. This rampant censorship is the result of the ...