From Gettysburg to Minneapolis: How the American Civil War continues to shape how we understand contemporary political conflicts and their dangers

As anger about the presence of ICE in Minneapolis divided the nation, Americans turned to the American Civil War for ...
The Statehouse News Bureau

‘The Copperhead Conspiracy’ explores a forgotten Civil War story set in the Midwest

The new podcast is about a conspiracy that took place in Ohio and several other Midwestern states during the Civil War.
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‘Lincoln’s Peace’ Review: The War That Wouldn’t Die

Of all wars, none are quite so catastrophic as civil wars. They arise from the ugliest of disagreements, they spill into the most reprehensible of behaviors, and they seem never to have a distinct ...

Contributor: Our era really is like the Civil War in one key way

Reaching for parallels in the Revolution and abolition, Americans are no longer debating conventional public policy. We are debating identity.
The American Conservative

The Prelude to the Civil War

Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861, by Robert W. Merry. Simon & Schuster, 528 pages. With Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Civil War Veterans Come Alive in Audio and Video Recordings

In a video clip from the 1930s, old Confederate soldiers step up to a microphone and let loose with the howling yelp that was once known as the fearsome "Rebel yell." From "The Rebel's Yell," Courtesy ...