This book by Harold Holzer looks at Abraham Lincoln and immigration. More accurately, it’s about immigration and the United States in Lincoln’s time. Holzer tells us Lincoln “deserves enormous credit for staving off the forces of fear and bigoty and envisioning a government of, by, and for the people, regardless of their national origin. Lincoln […]
This article comes from the Summer 2023 issue of America’s Civil War magazine. “In November 1862, Marcus Thompson escaped from a farm in Mount Sterling, Ky., to a nearby Union military camp commanded by Colonel Smith D. Atkins of the 92nd Illinois Infantry. Along with 29 other enslaved men, women, and children, Marcus had been […]
This article comes from the Winter 2023 issue of America’s Civil War magazine. “The surging mass of armed men stopped the train full of Union recruits and herded the passengers out of their cars. The bold move occurred in Pennsylvania, sending shock waves across the Keystone State. Governor Andrew Curtin dashed off a telegram to […]
This article by Professor Joseph Harsh is in Civil War History, Volume 19, Number 2, June 1973, pp. 101-118. In it, Professor Harsh gives us a more objective appraisal of McClellan historiography to that point and to McClellan’s own views and policy preferences. He tells us, “Sound and fury swirl around the historical reputation of […]
This book by Harold Holzer is an in-depth look at what Abraham Lincoln did and said, along with the events, between his election as president and his inauguration. This was, as the subtitle tells us in the words coined by Henry Adams, “The Great Secession Winter of 1860-1861, when the seven states of the Deep […]
This is an excellent discussion between host Professor Gerald Prokopowicz and his guest, Professor Elizabeth Varon about Professor Varon’s biography of James Longstreet.
This is a wonderful conversation with Professor Anne Marshall on Kentucky and the Lost Cause lie. This is from the history podcast, “For the Ages.” The episode’s description reads, “Kentucky fought alongside the Union for the entirety of the Civil War, yet in the decades that followed, the state embraced many political and cultural traditions […]
This article comes from the American Historical Association. “When I read through the results of the AHA and Fairleigh Dickinson’s ‘Surveying the Past’ study, one set of answers stood out to me. Across all age groups, respondents indicated that they associated high school history classes with the teaching of ‘names, dates, and other facts,’ while […]
This interview with the noted historian William C. “Jack” Davis is from the Winter 2023 issue of America’s Civil War magazine. “Civil War historian William C. ‘Jack’ Davis, retired professor of American History at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, recently collaborated with Sue Bell on a project to edit letters dating from 1863 to 1865 between Sue […]
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