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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Nooses,” the penultimate chapter of the upcoming book Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War, is a bird’s-eye view of the years between President Lincoln’s death—150 years ago ...