When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?

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"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 ...

Chapman’s investigation resulted in a book published in 2012 and a 2023 documentary ... He began investigating his father’s involvement in the civil rights movement in the South, which led him to ...

The books on this list -- fiction, nonfiction, classics, and recent releases -- can help kids understand the Civil War and its legacy. For more books about history, check out our lists of Historical ...

Making The Civil War: 25 Years Later. Special | 28m 19s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Ken Burns, Ric Burns, Buddy Squires, and Allen Moore discuss the making of The Civil War.

Books About the American Revolution. Last updated: July 6, 2022 by Regan McMahon. The American colonial period and the Revolutionary War for independence from Britain are rich subjects for kids. From ...

While writing about a slave raid, author and researcher Edda Fields-Black discovered her own family tie to the raid in the ...

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 ...

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!