The Valdosta Daily Times

BOOK REVIEWS: Our First Civil War: H.W. Brands

H.W. Brands We’ve never gotten along. Americans. Since before we were Americans. In “Our First Civil War: Patriots and ...
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The American Civil War: Separating the Truths and The Myths

As time passes, history often becomes blurred. Stories are retold, facts are altered, and over generations, popular belief can drift far from the truth. Much like the old game of telephone, the ...
Wired

Historians Don't Think a US Civil War Is Likely—but They're Still Nervous

“The fabric of what binds America together at this point is basically on its final thread,” one source tells WIRED. It’s impossible to look around and not wonder whether the US is teetering on the ...
Columbus Dispatch

The nation’s soul was torn. Civil War can teach us much about convictions | Opinion

Both the Union and the Confederacy believed God was on their side, using faith to justify their respective causes. Tyler Rice of Columbus, Ohio is a freelance historian specializing in religion and ...
The New York Times

What ‘The American Revolution’ Says About Our Cultural Battles

In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its timing feels urgent. Critic’s Notebook In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the ...
The Conversation

Slavery’s brutal reality shocked Northerners before the Civil War − and is being whitewashed today by the White House

Gerry Lanosga does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...