Features
Monumental Decisions
Across the country, Confederate symbols are coming down. We enlisted a panel of top historians to help make sense of it all.
With Sarah Beetham, Robert Greene II, Kevin M. Levin, Peter S. Carmichael, Megan Kate Nelson, and Jonathan W. White
An Artist in the Ranks
The Civil War illustrations of Adolph Metzner, 32nd Indiana Infantry
The “Notorious” Lieutenant Davidson
Bold, talented, and surpemely self-confident, Hunter Davidson forged a successful Civil War career as a Confederate torpedo expert—one he felt compelled to promote repeatedly in the decades after the conflict.
By John M. Coski and Charles T. Jacobs
Departments
Editorial: A Changing Landscape
Salvo: Facts, Figures & Items of Interest
Voices: Coffee
Preservation: Changing of the Guard
Faces of War: Rallying for Lincoln
Cost of War: Mead’s Pocket-Box of Games
In Focus: “Commodore Dead”
Columns:
American Iliad: Goodbye to All That, by Mark Grimsley
Books & Authors:
The Best Civil War Books of 2020
With Brian Matthew Jordan, Jennifer M. Murray, Kevin M. Levin, Sarah Handley-Cousins,
and Gerald J. Prokopowicz
Parting Shot: Time-Honored Deeds