How railroads, Texas cattle drives, and refrigerated railcars transformed Kansas City into a major Midwest meatpacking and transportation ...

The sharp blast of a whistle warning of an approaching train, the powerful chuffing of steam engines, the rhythmic clicking of wheels on rail joints, the shouted communications between crew members ...

When massive freight trains loaded with tanks roll past civilian towns, most people assume it’s unusual. It isn’t. From the first troop trains of the 1830s to World War II’s armored rail fortresses, ...

Using metal detectors, we explore ground shaped by railroads and the Civil War, uncovering relics that connect modern landscapes to forgotten moments in American history.

Fitzhugh Brundage’s gripping new book, aptly titled A Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War, represents an essential contribution to this rethinking in its account of what was ...

The manager of Kennesaw’s controversial Civil War shop has agreed to relinquish the downtown store and several other properties that were subject to a lengthy fight over the late owner’s estate. But ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. We’re one year in, and President Trump’s second term has already produced a parade of problematic historical ...

The Economist watched with alarm as America descended into civil war in 1861. That April militiamen from South Carolina, which had seceded, bombarded Fort Sumter, a Union stronghold just off the state ...

There is no shortage of books on the period surrounding America’s civil war. Canonical classics include “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, a moral attack on slavery that changed minds when it was published in 1852 ...

Minnesota’s standoff with the Trump administration amid its immigration crackdown in the state has made a political tinderbox of the Twin Cities, as devolving clashes between protesters and federal ...

More than a century before streaming platforms and superhero cinematic universes, American filmmakers were already chasing scale, spectacle, the war film and national history. One of the boldest ...