How a disgraced Civil War general became one of the best-selling novelists in American history.

The Civil War started 150 years ago today. A primer on how and why.

The strange life of Boston Corbett, the soldier who killed John Wilkes Booth in 1865.

Like hundreds of other local slaves — [they] had been pressed into service by the Confederates, compelled to build an artillery emplacement amid the dunes across the harbor. They labored beneath the banner of the 115th Virginia Militia, a blue flag bearing a motto in golden letters: “Give me liberty or give me death.”

Today, Abraham Lincoln’s struggle with clinical depression would make him “unfit for office.” Back then, it was the key to his presidency.