Books Why Jews were like everyone else — only more so — during slavery and the Civil War Richard Kreitner’s ‘Fear No Pharoah’ takes an unflinching look at how Jews reckoned with America ...

When the Civil War began in 1861, Starr King helped California raise $1.2 million, more than any state in the union, for the U.S. Sanitary Commission, a precursor to the American Red Cross, which ...