T UCSON, Ariz. (13 News) - When most people picture the Civil War, they see rolling fields back East—not the Sonoran Desert.

At the time the Civil War began in 1861, the United States government did not print paper money; it only minted coins. As a historian of the American Civil War, I study how the Confederate government ...

Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the U.S. right now and a totally different period of American history. Most ...

Anything is possible in the coming days and weeks, but it’s difficult not to feel like we are veering toward escalating violence. Members of the National Guard walk on the National Mall on August 14, ...