Bruce Murkoff's "Red Rain" is a rich, thick stew of a historical novel, a powerfully imagined and thoroughly believable vision of America in its nadir summer of 1864. The protagonist is Will Harp ...

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In 1864, Like in 2020, America Just Got Lucky The arc of history does not bend inevitably toward justice. Sometimes, Americans barely avoid disaster.

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After the 'No Kings' protests of June 14, two readers use the 4th of July to reflect on America's past and present.

Notwithstanding the absence of lofty mountain-chains in America, we are not wholly without the means of measuring the thickness of the ice - sheet, by comparing it, as in Europe, with some of our ...

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The Outcome Of course, Lincoln did win his bid for re-election in 1864, running on the ticket of the National Union Party, which attracted votes from both Republicans and pro-Union Democrats. General ...

A stretch of dry, empty prairie where the Sand Creek Massacre took place in Colorado has hardly changed in a century and a half. Back in December 1864, America was still months from the end of the ...

Traveling to Baltimore in the fall of 1864, Orville Wood had no way of knowing he would soon uncover the most elaborate election conspiracy in America’s brief history.

President Donald Trump on Thursday called for fewer federal holidays, saying the days off cost America billions of dollars in losses.

Directly ending human life—at any stage—tears the metaphysical tapestry of existence.