Larson’s latest book is a chilling countdown of the steps and missteps in the five months between Lincoln’s election in 1860 and the start of the Civil War, when the Confederates shelled Fort ...

To people who happen to be admirers of Spanish Civil War literature, Jackson as the headquarters of the Mississippi Summer Project is likely to conjure up visions of Madrid as the capital of the ...

Following on the heels of her Jacksonville-set Civil War-era novel, Vaz now is in the early stages of writing a more contemporary book on female friendship in California’s valley towns.

Chris Bohjalian’s 25th novel, “The Jackal’s Mistress,” was inspired by the true story of a Southern woman who helped an ...

It was an “unspeakable war,” wrote one journalist, and “a story that nobody dared to tell.” But contrary to popular assumption, the tragic Irish Civil War of 1922-1923—a wrenching, destructive run-up ...