William Tecumseh Sherman

A new biography of William Tecumseh Sherman questions his reputation as the brutal "prophet of total war."

And then took credit for "saving" them.

The story of William Higginbotham & the Black community in Civil War Rome.

The backstory to the backstory of America’s mythic promise.

Their great-grandfather had bought the land a hundred years earlier, when he was a generation removed from slavery.

This negates a commonly used defense that Confederate symbols represent ‘heritage not hate’.

The incredible story of how a disgraced Civil War general became one of the best-selling novelists in American history.

How the younger brother of the famous general set out to destroy the scourge of monopoly power.

New books reconsider how Ulysses S. Grant became a forceful defender of the rights of African Americans after the Civil War.

We compiled Reconstruction-era documents to identify 1,250 formerly enslaved Black Americans given land—only to have it returned to their enslavers.

In a new book, Robert KD Colby of the University of Mississippi shows how the Confederacy remained committed to slavery.

The importance of contextualization and critical evaluation in historical analysis.

From homesteaders to tourists to the U.S. Army, railroads flooded the Great Plains with people who saw bison as pests, amusements, or opportunities for profit.

Tracing the transformation of the Great Plains to the widespread belief in “manifest destiny,” and weighing the power of words to shape landscapes.

The remains of more than 100,000 Native Americans are held by prestigious U.S. institutions, despite a 1990 law meant to return them to tribal nations.

An enslaved woman’s experience with General Sherman’s army.

William Darity and A. Kirsten Mullen’s case for reparations.

George Henry Thomas, southerner in blue.

The 19th-century antecedent to today’s complaints of labor shortage.

On Juneteenth, we should remember both the struggle against chattel slavery and the struggle for radical freedom during Reconstruction.