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What the 'Dawn of the Civil War' can tell us about today's acrimonious politics
WLRN Miami· 7 days agoIn The Demon of Unrest, author Erik Larson chronicles the five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and the start of the Civil ...
Erik Larson On The Dawn Of The Civil War : Fresh Air
NPR· 7 days agoIn The Demon of Unrest, author Erik Larson chronicles the five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and the start of the Civil ...
Review: 'Devil in the White City' author Erik Larson returns with 'The Demon of Unrest'
New Hampshire Union Leader· 4 days agoThere may be a tendency to think of the war in the same breath as Abraham Lincoln, but Larson, whose...
Military Book Review Abraham Lincoln and the Bible: A Complete Compendium
Strategy Page· 4 days agoIn many American homes during the nineteenth century the King James Bible was the only book, and its influence on language and literacy was enormous. A work of meticulous scholarship, this book ...
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Book Reporter· 4 days agoOn November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the ...
The furious bombardment that opened the US Civil War
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThere is much to be said for the brutality of a British general election, where a removals van turns up at No 10 within hours of a Prime Minister...
Erik Larson vividly captures the struggle for Fort Sumter
The Day· 5 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.
Biggest cities in Ohio 150 years ago
WCMH via Yahoo News· 3 days agoView a related report on the most common jobs 150 years ago in Ohio in the video player above. After the completion of the 1860 census and the election...
Tobias Menzies interview: ‘Old-fashioned masculinity has largely vanished from our screens’
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 7 hours ago“I’m temperamentally not well suited to being well-known or being spotted,” says Tobias Menzies....
History As It Happens: The elections of 1860 and 1864
The Washington Times· 2 days agoThis is the third episode in an occasional series examining significant elections in American...