A massacre in Hamburg, S.C., epitomized the violence that eviscerated Reconstruction. In the spring […]
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Film Review: Cabaret (1972)
Columnist Mark Grimsley examines Cabaret’s distinctive perspective on the Nazis’ rise to power in Germany
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American History Book Review: This Republic of Suffering
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust, […]
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Lew Wallace’s River of Redemption
With Rebels threatening Washington in 1864, a disgraced Union general held the line at […]
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Pirates of the Revolution
Military outsourcing is making headlines, but it didn’t begin in Iraq. Private contractors played […]
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Slaves Ponder the Fears and Wonders of Freedom
Rare oral histories of the Civil War reveal slaves held surprisingly mixed opinions of Marse Lincoln and their emancipation.
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When Blame-Game Politics Unfurled at London’s 1908 Olympics
Political conflicts are nothing new to the Olympics, as demonstrated by the ruckus Americans and Brits stirred up a century ago
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Book Review: Ironclads at War / Deadly Inferno
Ironclads at War: The Monitor vs. The Merrimac by Dan Abnett, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, […]
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‘He Is Dead, Yet He Liveth’
John James Carson drove the ambulance that transported the wounded ‘Stonewall’ Jackson from the […]
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The Civil War Today: January 2008
More Room for Artifacts at Gettysburg General Robert E. Lee’s field desk, the litter […]