19th Century
Robert Sattelmeyer |
Published: January 30, 2012 at 12:03 pm
Eager to support the North, the budding author volunteered for a fledgling corps of female nurses
Published: January 30, 2012 at 12:02 pm
Union Lieutenant William M. Reid recounts the Battle of Shiloh. PLUS: Three other accounts of the battle.
Published: January 12, 2012 at 11:13 am
Stunning events on land and sea: Naval warfare is reinvented and a placid church gets a bloodbath
March
March 3 – President Lincoln appoints Andrew Johnson, the only Southern U.S. senator to remain loyal after his state seceded, military governor …
Peter Cozzens |
Published: January 12, 2012 at 11:11 am
Battlefield held little terror for feisty Marie Tepe as she focused on aiding her beloved Zouaves
Born Marie Brose in France, Marie Tepe had emigrated in her youth. She followed her tailor husband into the war. Image courtesy of USAMHI.…
Published: January 12, 2012 at 11:10 am
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz (Henry Holt, 2011, $29)
Tony Horwitz is one of today's keenest commentators on the American character. In Midnight Rising, he turns his intuitive eye …
Andrew Hind |
Published: January 12, 2012 at 11:08 am
A speculative rendering of the Canadian merchant Georgian, by Gregory Proch
The Georgian started its life as a merchant steamer, but Confederate agents in Canada had darker plans
The quiet streets of Toronto stretched away from Dr. James Bates, disappearing …
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: January 11, 2012 at 2:05 pm
The War of 1812, by PBS, offers a basic primer of the causes, battles, outcome and principal players of this oft-overlooked war.
Jon Guttman |
Published: January 06, 2012 at 10:59 pm
Its Broomhandle grip and 10-round stripper clip made the Mauser C-96 a popular early semiautomatic pistol.
Jon Guttman |
Published: January 06, 2012 at 10:34 pm
Swiss citizen-soldiers used the multitool to open food tins and service their rifles in the field, but it has since become a coveted catalog bestseller.
Hugh Howard |
Published: January 06, 2012 at 7:14 pm
The stubborn Americans foiled the 1814 British siege of Fort McHenry—and the flag was still there at dawn
Published: December 06, 2011 at 11:45 am
Is this a previously unknown portrait of the Gray Ghost?
Glenn Tucker |
Published: December 06, 2011 at 11:36 am
Did Lee order Longstreet to attack at dawn on July 2 at Gettysburg? Did Longstreet drag his feet because he disapproved?
Published: December 02, 2011 at 5:49 pm
The U.S. government passed the Homestead Act 150 years ago to prompt Americans to settle the Great Plains. Would you have jumped at the chance to claim your own "free" land in a remote, difficult environment where Indian attacks were …
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: December 02, 2011 at 5:38 pm
In his latest book, Dakota Dawn, Gregory Michno tracks the bloody first week of the 1862 Minnesota Sioux Uprising.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: December 02, 2011 at 5:25 pm
Meek's Cutoff, directed by Kelly Reichardt, offers a sometimes agonizingly realistic look at life on the Oregon Trail of the 1840s.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: December 02, 2011 at 5:25 pm
Winston Groom's new book, Kearny's March, is the story of a year (1846-47) as related through the personal vignettes of several historic figures.
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