Hundreds of documents dating from the English Civil War have been donated to the British Library by the Home Office. The 900 pamphlets, bound in 17 volumes, detail events around the 1649 execution of ...

In May 1642, a traveller passed through Oxfordshire. He was one of many hurrying to vacate London amid rumours of an oncoming civil war, but in his black lawyer’s garb, this man carried a ...

Civil War Book Host Bob Edwards talks with Charles Bryan, Jr., of the Virginia Historical Society, about a new book he's co-edited about the Civil War. Eye of the Storm: ...

PATRIOTIC GORE (816 pp.)—Edmund Wilson—Oxford ($8.50).Historians never seem to tire of running over the same Civil War battlegrounds. They have fought and refought the great campaigns, ...