Generals Burnside and Longstreet face off in Earl J. Hess’s study of the Civil War struggle for Knoxville
…brutal shortages for all. One Confederate soldier admitted, “I was so hungry that I felt like I had reverted to the original type of savage man, and would have stolen…
Caroline Kennedy talks with Chapter 16 about the historical value of newly published tapes from her father’s White House
…the Cold War. Six months later, sustained civil-rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, gripped the world’s attention. Not long after that, a coup against the South Vietnamese government threatened to drag…
Tony Horwitz talks with Chapter 16 about the complicated legacy of abolitionist John Brown
…who weren’t much different from men who later fought in the Civil War. Also, for an insurrectionist, he was surprisingly conventional in many respects: a family man, devout Christian, and…
