One hundred fifty-eight years ago, on July 1, 2, and 3, Union and Confederate armies clashed at the small south-central Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg, located a few miles north of the Maryland ...

That’s what a Confederate colonel wrote home to his wife as a mass of men in tattered gray approached the town of Gettysburg. He called it a “land of thrift and plenty,” according to author Shelby ...

THERE WAS SOMETHING BEYOND OLD-fashioned–maybe the right word is archaic–about Shelby Foote. It emerged full-blown that evening a decade ago when he appeared in Ken Burns’s Civil War series as the ...