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A Political Convert in the Long Shadow of the Civil War

How We Remember the Civil War

A Lincoln for Our Polarized Times

A Rousing Novel Follows a Brigade of Black Soldiers in the Civil War

The True Story of Robert E. Lee

Stephen B. Oates, Civil War Historian, Dies at 85

Need a Modern Update on American History? Meet Clint Smith.

Before the Civil War, America Was a ‘House Divided’ in More Ways Than One

An Unlikely Alliance in Upstate N.Y. and the Fight for Black and Women’s Rights

Puncturing the Allure of Robert E. Lee, and Other Civil War-Era Histories

Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America

John Brown and Abraham Lincoln: A Study in Contrasts

The Trauma of the Civil War Lives On in Faulkner’s Fiction

The South’s Fight for White Supremacy

Donna Tartt on the Singular Voice, and Pungent Humor, of Charles Portis