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Published: 7/30/20
The Best Books About Robert E. Lee
Library of Congress Bruce Catton When I was 12 I found a mass market paperback of Bruce Catton’s A Stillness at Appomattox, and it yanked me so deep into the...Published: 7/29/20
Horace Greeley (2019)
Most students of nineteenth century America regard Horace Greeley as a political chameleon. The bespectacled New York Tribune editor who sensationalized the violence of Bleeding Kansas, impatiently urged Lincoln’s armies “on...Published: 7/25/20
An Infernal Machine
In the July 27, 1861, issue of Harper’s Weekly, the editors published a small story about an “infernal machine” recently removed from the Potomac River near where the sloop-of-war USS...Published: 7/22/20
In The Waves (2020)
On a calm, cool February night in 1864, the USS Housatonic lay at anchor just outside of Charleston harbor. One of many Union ships blockading one of the Confederacy’s few remaining...9