Richard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American ...

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

The American Civil War Museum actually comprises three sites ... while the Museum of the Confederacy at Appomattox sits in Appomattox, Virginia (about 95 miles west of Richmond).

Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second ...

As they paraded by him for the first time in March of 1864, soldiers of the Army of the Potomac knew the general in full dress blues, accented with sash and sword, was the freshly minted commander of ...

Pp. x, 334. Illus., maps, notes, biblio., index. $30.00. ISBN: 1469663376 The Army of Northern Virginia Goes Home Caroline E. Janney evokes the human drama of Appomattox and the memory of Confederate ...

The episode begins with William Tecumseh Sherman's brilliant march to the sea, which brings the war to ... of Northern Virginia flees westward toward a tiny crossroads town called Appomattox ...

George Edward Pickett was raised in Richmond, Virginia ... At the end of the war, Pickett and his remaining troops served at the Battle of Appomattox Court House and surrendered with Lee's ...