An Interview with Nicholas Marshall

Our conversation with Nicholas Marshall, an associate professor of history at Marist College and recent author of “The Great Exaggeration: Death and the Civil War,” featured in the March issue of the Journal of the Civil War Era. In this interview, Marshall addresses what he perceives as “misguided” criticism that has been leveled at his article and tries to share with viewers the true impact of his piece.

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“It made us an ‘is’.”

It’s one of the great quotes, from one of the great documentaries, that sums up the legacy of the American Civil War: Before the war, it was said ‘the United States are’– grammatically it was spoken that way and thought of as a collection of independent states. And after the war it was always ‘the […]