And Walt Whitman wrote a long essay titled “Democratic Vistas.” The author of “Leaves of Grass” (1855), whose poems are still found in every anthology of American poetry, felt moved to address the ...

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Clie published a Spanish translation of American historian Beth Allison Barr’s The Making of Biblical Womanhood, which ...

America has always been “blessed” with predictions of doom and despair before and after every presidential election, but in recent years we have gone Category Five with forecasts of a Civil War II.

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For decades, the cremated remains on more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities ...

I still believe Jefferson and Washington, though flawed, were highly evolved for their time. I also believe that if every ...

Terrorism experts Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware use historical and recent facts to try and answer that question.

The most famous battle of the Civil War took place just outside of Gettysburg. Morning Edition stopped by the historic site ...