When it comes to historical fiction books about war, the options are endless. Whether you want to read about The Civil War, ...

Ford departs from her usual genre of southern mystery to pen historical fiction. Her new novella, Secret Messages, takes place during the Civil War era. She tells the story of a young Dr ...

It is 2023, and every day I wake to a pundit or member of Congress calling for civil war—or its euphemistic parlance, a “national divorce.” They cloak their ambition as civic concern ...

The Civil War draft riots of 1863 New York are brought vividly to life in Myers' novel for teens. 15-year-old Claire, the daughter of a black father and a white mother, finds herself a target ...

Most of the many volumes written about America’s Civil War revolve around its battles and leaders — and men. But two galvanic new books — one fiction, one not — remind us of the women so ...

Perhaps the best way to report on Bernard Cornwell’s third volume in his episodic tale of Nate Starbuck and the Civil War is to recall and update the principal characters. The action picks up ...

Scholars and novelists have fundamental differences about how to understand works of fiction ... the one that the Civil War’s aftermath had set in place.” Faulkner could engage these subjects ...