“The American Civil War has an official end date, and that end date is August 1866,” Vorenberg said. Notably, the official ...

America had the largest per capita newspaper circulation in the world at the time of the South's secession, and the war made the nation even hungrier for news. Correspondents headed for the ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to the outbreak of the bloodiest conflict in the history of North America? A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the ...

Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 2023. Pp. vi, 255. Illus., notes, index. $30.00 paper. ISBN: 0813198461 War, Reconstruction, and Vengence On the ...