With the Civil War sesquicentennial looming, she wanted me to write an introduction to the war for a broad audience. The only catch was that the book had to incredibly short: 30,000-40,000 words.

The summer before the end of the Civil War, sculptor John Rogers created a statuette of a runaway slave aiding an injured, white Union soldier. While the black man in the sculpture keeps an eye ...

Using graphic books to teach, or to lure a more visual reader to books, is nothing new, but Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War, by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm and Ari Kelman, seems destined ...

Freeman Colby was a young schoolteacher from New Hampshire who joined the Union Army during the American Civil War. For the first nine months, Colby kept detailed notes of his service and wrote to ...

When the authors of "Battle Lines," a new graphic history of the Civil War began their project, they couldn't know that the symbol of that war—the Confederate flag—would be so painfully ...

Their book, Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War, will be published in May. You can pre-order it here. 6. Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter.

Regardless of the Civil War estimate, the number of active-duty deaths per 100,000 between 1861 and 1865 is more than six times higher than in World War II. The five most deadly U.S. wars in ...