The Nonfiction Author Series returns this winter with four rousing real-life adventures: a brazen billion-dollar art theft; a gutsy woman who tricked the Nazis into releasing thousands of Polish ...

In just five agonizing months — from Abraham Lincoln’s election as president on Nov. 6, 1860, until the first shot fired in the Civil War on April 12, 1861 — America went from unstable to ...

Gen. George Meade has been called "the Rodney Dangerfield of Civil War generals. He gets no respect. Tom Huntington wanted to find out why." That's how Stackpole Books introduces Huntington's ...

A retired Indiana businessman remains busy, five years after selling his family’s century-old company, as an author, drawing upon a lifetime interest in the American Civil War. From noon to 4 p.m.

Barnesville author Steven Hoffbeck chronicles Colonel William Colvill and the First Minnesota Regiment’s heroism at Gettysburg in his new book, "'Colvill Smiled.' The Legend of the 1st Minnesota ...

POTTSVILLE — Housekeeping time at the Schuylkill County Historical Society turned up a cache of books that’s delighting Civil War enthusiasts. Felicia Wolf, assistant director, found several dozen ...

On Thursday, April 3 at 7 p.m., the Montclair Public Library will host New York Times bestselling historical novelists Chris Bohjalian and Christina Baker Kline for a discussion about Bohjalian’s ...

This week on The Bookmark, Conrad Bibens, author of The Best General in the Civil War discusses his historical fiction biography of George Thomas, a Southern-born soldier who sided with the Union and ...

A former resident of central Pennsylvania has earned a book award for his work documenting the Battle of Gettysburg. Ron Kirkwood was recently named the recipient of the Distinguished Book Award from ...