STARKVILLE, Miss.—Susannah J. Ural, a noted Civil War-era history professor and researcher, is Mississippi State’s inaugural Frank and Virginia Williams Endowed Chair of Abraham Lincoln and Civil War ...

Historians generally treat Reconstruction as an era whose aspiration, drama and importance are confined to America alone. And little wonder: In the decade after the Civil War, the U.S. embarked on a ...

In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln’s gave African Americans hope with the impending Emancipation Proclamation and whispers of the upcoming end of slavery. But despite its defeat, the Confederate ...

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 ...