1861-1865 Archives

1861-1865

History As End

by Matthew Karp,

1619, 1776, and the politics of the past

Civil Warning

by Elliot Ackerman,

Are we living through another antebellum era?

Film set (‘Free State of Jones’), battle of Corinth, Bush, Louisiana, 2015

by Li An-My,

Southern Discomfort

by LeRoy Wiley Gresham,

From the unpublished diaries of LeRoy Wiley Gresham (1847–65), son of John J. Gresham, twice mayor of Macon, Georgia. LeRoy, a longtime invalid confined to his bed or to a…

Team America

by Thomas Frank,

There have been an estimated 16,000 books written about Abraham Lincoln; like the lives of the wealthy and the secrets of self-improvement, a fascination with the Great Emancipator is an…