This site, a companion to the dual biography of Abe and Mary Lincoln, has many features devoted to the Civil War. Of particular interest are a review of several major newspapers’ roles in reporting ...

LOS ANGELES - Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns recently compared current issues to "three great crises" of the past in America: the Civil War, the Great Depression and World War II. Burns, an ...

One of the first Americans to become proficient at photography, Mathew Brady earned eternal fame—and poverty—for documenting the carnage of the Civil War. By 1854, he was already photographing famous ...

Ken Burns comes full circle when he frames the Revolutionary War as a civil war. “The war grew out of a multitude of grievances lodged against the British parliament by British subjects living an ...

Ken Johnston, who has been the program director at the National Civil War Naval Museum at Port Columbus for the past 16 months, has been named executive director. He replaces Bruce Smith, who is ...

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As America prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday next year, TV’s most eloquent historian, Ken Burns, reminds us in his latest sweeping epic just how grueling the nation’s birth pangs were. “It’s ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns stars in a five-day Civil War tour of Washington, D.C., designed to capture the story he told in his documentary about the war and its aftermath. For the second year, ...

When Attorney General Ken Paxton was impeached in May, many Texans posed an obvious question: Why were some Republicans finally turning on him? It’s a good question, but flip it and it becomes more ...

Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan survived the nasty primary runoff for his seat while fellow conservative state Rep. Justin Holland lost his suburban Dallas seat to Trump 2016 spokeswoman Katrina ...

Streetlights illuminate the Texas Capitol through early morning fog on the ninth day of suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial in Austin on Sept. 15, 2023. Credit: Texas Tribune / ...