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News about the American Civil War (1861-1865), including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
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| 11/01/2009 12:00 AM |
| Brutal Terrain
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This military history of the Civil War emphasizes geography’s role in shaping strategy.
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News about the American Civil War (1861-1865), including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
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| 10/28/2009 12:00 AM |
| One Man’s Crusade Against Slavery, Seen From Two Angles
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 In two small-scale but heavily laden exhibitions it becomes clear that John Brown’s legacy is nearly as riven now as it was on the eve of the Civil War.
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| NYT > American Civil War (1861-1865) |
News about the American Civil War (1861-1865), including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
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| 10/16/2009 12:00 AM |
| America’s War, British View
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 John Keegan, who is British, puts the Civil War into broad historical context amid history’s great conflicts, from the Napoleonic wars and World War I to Vietnam.
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News about the American Civil War (1861-1865), including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
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| 10/09/2009 12:00 AM |
| When Honest Abe Met This Querulous Metropolis
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 The compellingly informative exhibition of our 16th president at the New-York Historical Society is most revealing in how polarized New York City was in its opinion toward slavery.
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News about the American Civil War (1861-1865), including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
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| 09/27/2009 12:00 AM |
| Where Lincoln Tossed and Turned
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 Lincoln chose to stay at New York’s most famous hotel, the Astor House, when he arrived in 1860.
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| NYT > American Civil War (1861-1865) |
News about the American Civil War (1861-1865), including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
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| 09/20/2009 12:00 AM |
| The Not-So-Solid South
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A history professor examines the pre-Civil War divisions between the upper and lower South.
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| NYT > American Civil War (1861-1865) |
News about the American Civil War (1861-1865), including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
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| 08/30/2009 12:00 AM |
| Treacherous Ground
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 A history of a division of black troops scapegoated for a Union debacle.
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News about the American Civil War (1861-1865), including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
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| 08/23/2009 12:00 AM |
| Faked Photographs: Look, and Then Look Again
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 The dubious arts of splicing, posing and wholesale erasing in the iconic photography of history.
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| NYT > American Civil War (1861-1865) |
News about the American Civil War (1861-1865), including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
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| 08/16/2009 12:00 AM |
| Rebel Rebel
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The history of a storied resistance movement in Mississippi that was a thorn in the side of the Confederacy, recreated in lively fashion.
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| NYT > American Civil War (1861-1865) |
News about the American Civil War (1861-1865), including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
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| 07/30/2009 12:00 AM |
| Civil War Fires Up Literary Shootout
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 An encounter over a pair of Civil War-era histories offers a glimpse of the way that show business and its values have become entwined with the academic book world.
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News about the American Civil War (1861-1865), including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
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| 07/15/2009 12:00 AM |
| Kenneth M. Stampp, Civil War Historian, Dies at 96
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 Mr. Stampp’s writings about the period turned accepted wisdom inside out and engendered seismic shifts in the scholarship.
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| NYT > American Civil War (1861-1865) |
News about the American Civil War (1861-1865), including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
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| 05/24/2009 12:00 AM |
| A Crumbling Piece of History
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 Thought to be the state’s oldest remaining houses built by African-Americans, two rickety structures known as the Freeman houses are the only remnants of a south-end community of free blacks and runaway slaves.
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News about the American Civil War (1861-1865), including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
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| 05/19/2009 12:00 AM |
| David Herbert Donald, Writer on Lincoln, Dies at 88
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 Mr. Donald was a historian of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War who won Pulitzer Prizes for his biographies of the abolitionist statesman Charles Sumner and the novelist Thomas Wolfe.
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News about the American Civil War (1861-1865), including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
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| 04/21/2009 12:00 AM |
| Behind a Wall, a Surprise: A Look at Life in the Civil War
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 While restoring their 200-year-old Catskill home, a couple discovered a cache of documents letters, love poems once belonging to a newspaperman.
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News about the American Civil War (1861-1865), including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
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| 03/26/2009 12:00 AM |
| John Hope Franklin, Scholar of African-American History, Is Dead at 94
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 Mr. Franklin was a prolific scholar of African-American history who profoundly influenced thinking about slavery and Reconstruction while helping to further the civil rights struggle.
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