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 ...

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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.

Ryan Knutson, host of The Journal, speaks with travel expert and author Rick Steves about traveling in 2025 and Americans’ reception outside our country after the recent shakeup in the world order.

The Lost Peace' by Jay Winik. T he most serious attempt to evade America's Civil War was probably doomed to fail, said Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker. But that effort at rec ...

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 ...

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Missouri State University's Dr. Jeremy Neely unearths over 400 love letters between a young Union couple during the Civil War ...

Iraqi militias largely rely on rhetoric in response to Israel-Iran conflict—for now Ahmad Sharawi & Bridget Toomey | June 16, 2025. Iranian-backed militias in Iraq have refrained from attacking Israel ...

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, Latin America’s first elected female president, whose stunning victory at the polls in 1990 helped bring an end to eight years of a civil war in Nicaragua that ...

Buy Book Amazon Barnes & Noble Books a Million Bookshop In Jay Winik’s case, 24 years have passed since the publication of his history of the Civil War’s final days, “April 1865: The Month ...