United States History Books

For twenty-one years, Judge Isaac C. Parker presided over the U.S. Court for the Western District of Arkansas, stationed in the rugged frontier tow...

The legacies forged from Mammoth Cave guides, like Stephen Bishop, Mat and Nick Bransford, Ed Bishop, Bob Lively, and Ed Hawkins, were as permanent...

For most of the 1.5 million people who visit Mammoth Cave National Park yearly, the cave, forest trails, and Green River are the major attractions....

"One, day not long ago, I was going through some papers left to me when my sister died. I came upon a diary that no one in the family seems to have...

Paula Steichen was only two when she moved with her immediate family, the Sandburgs, to Connemara, a beautiful old mansion on more than two hundred...

African Americans played a crucial role in the American Civil War. By the end of the war, 10% of the Union Army was comprised of African Americans....

Part of the National Park Civil War Series. In the sleepy hamlet of Dover, Tennessee, the Confederate Fort Donelson, commanding the Cumberland Rive...

Kennesaw was the “one last mountain” between General William T. Sherman and Atlanta, Georgia. When Union troops arrived in Marietta, the “Gibraltar...

During the first six months of 1862, the Union army marched over seven hundred miles from Rolla, Missouri to Helena, Arkansas, and, despite crossin...

In April 1863, the 60,000 Confederate men marching under the orders of the Army of Northern Virginia were but a fraction of the size of General Jos...

In the late spring of 1864, the American Civil War reached a new level of brutality. Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant launched the Overland Campaign, a re...

The Battles of Chattanooga were a series of skirmishes and larger battles fought from September to November of 1863 that largely centered on a sect...

The Battles for Richmond, sometimes called the Seven Days Battles, were six major battles around Richmond, Virginia during the beginning of the Ame...

Part of the National Park Civil War Series. The Wilderness and Spotsylvania operations stand among the most fascinating episodes in American milita...

"Surrender did not stop the guns, nor did it solve any profound social and emotional issues that had ignited the war," writes author Trudeau. "Yet ...

''The South Carolina officers left the fort at 3:20, warning Anderson that the bombardment --and, inevitably, civil war-- would begin in one hour.'...

In mid-1864, to circumnavigate a direct assault on the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, Union Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant set his...

The Confederate prison camp at Andersonville recorded 12,290 deaths within its 26-acre confines at the conclusion of the American Civil War. During...

The Second Battle of Manassas, also called The Second Battle of Bull Run, was a Confederate victory—and a blow to Union morale—fought on the same g...

After a series of trial-and-error attempts, Union soldiers finally gained control of the crucial city of Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1863. Brigadier ...

Part of the National Park Civil War Series. For Missouri, the years immediately preceding the Civil War personified its status as a border state. A...

Powerful stories of influential Native Americans — for kids ages 8 to 12From every background and tribal nation, native people are a vital part of ...

By the end of the 18th century, over 15,000 enslaved African men, women, and children had arrived, labored, and died in what is now known as New Yo...

The fascinating series of events which made Ninety-Six a well-known South Carolina name continues to delight both casual and serious readers of ear...