Richmond, Virginia was the industrial and political capital of the Confederacy during the Civil War. Often at the heart of ...

Several days after the battle, Frankfort fell to Confederate forces, which marked the only Union capital to fall during the Civil War. The Battle of Richmond was one of five battles in Kentucky in ...

And the Civil War is the conflict that keeps on teaching. In January, for example, Knopf published Richard Carwardine’s “Righteous Strife: How Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Union,” which ...