Stereoscope

Published: 7/26/19

History as Imagination

By: Megan Kate Nelson

Category: Columns

Harriet Tubman helped free hundreds of slaves during the Combahee River Raid, an event documented in "The Tubman Command" by Elizabeth Cobbs.

Published: 12/17/18

Emancipation on Stage

By: Megan Kate Nelson

Category: Columns

Megan Kate Nelson discusses the play Ben Butler by playwright Richard Strand and staged by Portland Stage.

Published: 9/24/18

Varina

By: Megan Kate Nelson

Category: Columns

Cold Mountain author Charles Frazier turns his attention to the Confederacy's first lady in his new Civil War novel, "Varina."

Published: 2/23/18

The West’s Missing War

By: Megan Kate Nelson

Category: Columns

When I sat down to watch the new Netflix miniseries Godless, a Western set in 1885 New Mexico, I was curious to see whether any Civil War veterans would show...