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American civil war

November 2024

  • an old sketch of two men boxing

    ‘Political cesspool’: Lincoln, Davis and a battle with echoes for the time of Trump

  • two men in military uniform hold an American flag by a wooden urn on a table

    Civil war veterans’ remains buried after languishing in storage for decades

June 2024

  • A flag, in the pattern of the American flag, with green and red stripes, rainbow stars, and the word Juneteenth in yellow in the center.

    As Juneteenth grows in US, southern states cling to Confederate holidays

    At least 30 states officially celebrate end of slavery in US, but others pay employees to take day off to celebrate enslavers

May 2024

  • old photo of a man in a cape in a gold frame

    Wide Awakes: the young Americans who marched the north to civil war

  • Demonstrators with a peace sign and placards say 'Stop glorifying civil war leaders' next to a school board meeting sign.

    Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate names to two public schools

April 2024

  • old black and white photo of people gathered around some wooden sheds

    An Unholy Traffic: how the slave trade continued through the US civil war

    In a new book, Robert KD Colby of the University of Mississippi shows how the Confederacy remained committed to slavery

March 2024

  • The last photograph of Abraham Lincoln, taken in April 1865.

    ‘Lincoln had something to say’: historians ponder lessons for the age of Trump

    NPR host Steve Inskeep joins other authors of books on the 16th president at annual Ford’s Theatre symposium

February 2024

  • Phillip B Williams

    Ours by Phillip B Williams review – a fragile utopia for those escaping slavery

    Hidden and enchanted, the town of Ours – founded by a woman called Saint – reflects wider truths about US black history
  • US President Joe Biden urges Congress to pass immigration and foreign aid bill<br>epa11132146 US President Joe Biden delivers remarks urging Congress to pass the Emergency National Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, in front of a portrait of the sixteenth US President Abraham Lincoln, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 06 February 2024. The 118 billion USD immigration and foreign aid bill is the result of months of bipartisan negotiations to increase US border security and provide aid to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and others. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has called the bill ‘dead on arrival’ in the House as many House Republicans rally around former US President Donald J. Trump’s opposition to the bill. EPA/MICHAEL REYNOLDS

    Joe Biden’s great-great-grandfather was pardoned by Abraham Lincoln

    Moses Robinette was convicted in a civil war-era brawl – but Biden’s predecessor gave him a reprieve

    • ‘A new find’: one of last documents Abraham Lincoln signed goes on sale

    • Carol Rumens's poem of the week
      Poem of the week: In the Prison Pen by Herman Melville

    • Silent Cavalry review: Howell Raines’ fine work on southern resistance

January 2024

  • The battle of Fort Donelson.

    Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips review – ravages of the US civil war

    A little girl and her mother suffer the brutal fallout of the conflict in an unsparing novel that illuminates the human cost
  • Sidney Blumenthal

    Prosecutors are charging Trump using laws made to fight the KKK. Here’s why

    Sidney Blumenthal
    After the civil war, Klansmen were prosecuted – and Confederate traitors forced from office – by the same laws Trump has now run afoul of
  • Sidney Blumenthal

    Nikki Haley’s comment on the US civil war was no gaffe

    Sidney Blumenthal
    When asked about the cause of the civil war, she failed to mention slavery once. That is no surprise

December 2023

  • Nikki Haley declines to say US civil war was about slavery – video

    The voter who asked the question said he found it 'astonishing' that she answered without mentioning slavery
  • A woman holds a microphone.

    Nikki Haley declines to say slavery was cause of US civil war

    Republican presidential candidate discussed role of government in response to voter’s question but walked it back on Thursday

    • ‘History is not what happened’: Howell Raines on the civil war and memory

    • Judge temporarily bars removal of Confederate memorial in Virginia

    • Liz Cheney read my book: a historian, Lincoln and the lessons of January 6

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