In April 1863, the men of the 4th California infantry were hungry. They were posted at Drum Barracks ...

How claims records and other documents serve as historical sources.

How could John Baylor have done such terrible thing and simultaneously be so effusively affectionate in his letters home?

For the past two months, I have been on a researching road trip through the West and Southwest—Colorado, ...

Nineteenth-century visual images, then, had power to move people to action, to convert ideas into policy.

For scholars of American history, letter-writing makes historical research possible.