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Civil war

Southern Discomfort

From the unpublished diaries of LeRoy Wiley Gresham (1847–65), son of John J. Gresham, twice mayor of Macon, Georgia.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…

Libya’s Missing

by Guy Martin,

Endgame

by Alexei Osin, Irina Vorobieva,

Among the banana eaters

by Patrick Graham,

The middle-class rebels behind Libya's revolution

Radical will

by Deb Olin Unferth,

Weekly Review

by Sam Stark,

Caught in the Web, 1860. After many years of increasing borrowing and at least thirteen months of evidence of an impending catastrophe, American financial institutions faced the worst credit crisis…