Robert Colby is a historian at the University of Mississippi. His first book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil ...

"In the days after the Civil War, being a Black Republican meant something vastly different than today," an excerpt from “The Grift” reads. The book opens by highlighting how both parties ...

“To speak as the slave would, to say that we are as happy for the Civil War as most Americans are for the Revolutionary War, is to rupture the narrative.” ...

America’s first IRS commissioner helped raise the vast sums needed to wage the Civil War and was a strong advocate of racial ...

Thousands of newly freed slaves followed the Union Army’s “March to the Sea” in the hopes of protection as they left bondage behind.

Urdahl started telling Minnesota’s story in his book, “Three Paths to Glory,” which was published in 2015. In it, Urdahl focused on Minnesota regiments from the beginning of the American Civil War to ...