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What the 'Dawn of the Civil War' can tell us about today's acrimonious politics
NPR· 4 days agoAnd we're speaking with journalist and historian Erik Larson. He has a new book about the events that led to the outbreak of the American Civil War, focusing ...
Two faces of war: America 1861, Spain 1812
Smoky Mountain News· 4 days agoHere lifelong Civil War historian Emory Thomas, professor emeritus at the University of Georgia, examines the principal figures and events of a year...
Harold Holzier on Abraham Lincoln's attitude to the Irish and immigration
Irish Central· 15 hours agoIn a recent talk at the Irish Historical Society in New York, celebrated Lincoln scholar Harold...
Jackie Robinson was a Republican until the GOP became the ‘white man’s party’
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 week agoLike millions of other Blacks during the first half of the 20th Century, legendary baseball player...
"The Demon of Unrest": Recounting the first shots of the Civil War
CBS News· 1 week ago"South Carolina saw it as an affront to their sense of honor," said writer Erik Larson. Larson wrote...
Erik Larson vividly captures the struggle for Fort Sumter
The Day· 3 days agoNow, the popular historian Erik Larson has written a Civil War story that - as he says in the book’s first paragraphs - was shaped by the events of Jan.
The Man Behind Lincoln's Inauguration Photos
Smithsonian Magazine· 3 days agoFacing the connecting corridor that linked the new House of Representatives chamber to the main building, Wood stood ready to record a quiet ceremony honoring the setting of the first monolithic ...
The Tama County rifles in the Civil War | News, Sports, Jobs - Times Republican
Marshalltown Times-Republican· 1 week agoIowa was their adopted state. The Civil War stories of Company C of the 10th Iowa Infantry, also known as the “Tama County Rifles,” were revisited April ...
Tribune editorial: Don’t let a few radicals get in the way of free speech — or democracy — in Utah
The Salt Lake Tribune· 12 hours agoBy that standard, the Utah branch of the Party of Lincoln performed very poorly last weekend. The...
Doris Kearns Goodwin and husband Dick Goodwin lived, observed, created and chronicled the 1960s
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoRead more: Reckoning with long shadow of 1960s counterculture Goodwin, the author of award-winning biographies of Lyndon B. Johnson, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Abraham
