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An African American man and a white soldier from the 23rd New York.
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Fighting for Union

One man’s struggle to pick a side of the war, his ultimate choice, and how powerful the of concepts “liberty and union” were in motivating Northern soldiers.
via BackStory on March 31, 2011
A painting of the physician Iapyx removing an arrowhead from the hero Aeneas.

Two Generals Contest the Definition of Cruelty

Hood and Sherman exchange epistolary fire in 1864.
by William Tecumseh Sherman, John B. Hood via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 14, 1864
Ely S. Parker

Ely Parker’s Ambivalent Legacy

On U.S.-American Indian treaty-making and Ely Parker's role in its abolition.
by Michael Leroy Oberg via Native America: A History on November 20, 2025
“Furling the Flag” by Richard Norris Brooke (1872)

Alternative Fictions: The New Lost Cause in the Post-Civil Rights Era

Revisiting the Lost Cause through post–Civil Rights Movement alternative histories.
by Kris Plunkett via Muster on October 31, 2025
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Civil War Memory

Historical understandings and myths about the Civil War's causes, meanings, and legacies still shape American culture and national discourse about the country's future.
A sparrow.

The Fall of a Sparrow

A war photographer’s unflinching images break the idealism surrounding a young Civil War hero’s death.
by Rachel Eisendrath via The Paris Review on October 23, 2025
Lincoln, Washington, and a snippet from a lyceum address.

The Lincoln Way

How he used America’s past to rescue its future.
by Jake Lundberg via The Atlantic on October 10, 2025
Col. Elmer Ellsworth

Ellsworth, Embalming, and the Birth of the Modern American Funeral

Colonel Elmer Ellsworth's death marked a turning point in how the nation honored the fallen.
by Jarred Marlowe via Emerging Civil War on July 24, 2025
Weston pictured in 1909 sporting his signature walking outfit.

Edward Payson Weston: The Most Famous Athlete You’ve Never Heard Of

In 1861, Edward Payson Weston walked the 500 miles from Boston to D.C., and launched a legendary career as a pedestrian in the process.
by Lily Applebaum via Boundary Stones on June 24, 2025
Charles Sumner

How Charles Sumner Convinced Abraham Lincoln and the Union To Take a Stand Against Slavery

The domestic and international dynamics of the early days of the Civil War.
by Zaakir Tameez via Literary Hub on June 11, 2025
Collage of various black women mentioned within the article.

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Edda L. Fields-Black on the Combahee River Raid

Harriet Tubman’s revolutionary Civil War raid and the power of preserving Black history in the face of political pushback.
by Edda Fields-Black, Janell Hobson via Ms. Magazine on June 2, 2025
Walt Whitman

Brag and Humblebrag: Walt Whitman’s Encounters

Walt Whitman was a champion self-advertiser, maven of the brag and the humblebrag.
by Maureen N. McLane via London Review of Books on May 22, 2025
A newspaper drawing of St. Louis from above.
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German Radicals vs. the Slave Power

In "Memoirs of a Nobody," Henry Boernstein chronicles the militant immigrant organizing that helped keep St. Louis out of the hands of the Confederacy.
by Devin Thomas O’Shea via HNN on May 21, 2025
Karl Marx gazing off into the distance while surrounded by books

Karl Marx’s Legacy in the United States

For two centuries, Karl Marx’s thoughts have significantly impacted US politics. In turn, his close study of the US informed the development of his ideas.
by Andrew Hartman, Cal Turner, Sara Van Horn via Jacobin on May 18, 2025
Abraham Lincoln

Was the Civil War Inevitable?

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America.
by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on April 21, 2025
Harvard University "veritas" seal displayed on flags on its campus.

Harvard Stood Up to Trump. Too Bad the School Wasn’t Always So Brave.

The university’s last “finest hour” was more than 200 years ago.
by Timothy Noah via The New Republic on April 16, 2025
David Einhorn and Morris Raphall and a paper saying "Rabbis Battled for Abolition."

American Pharaohs

A new book doesn’t aim to skewer Jewish defenders of slavery or celebrate Jewish abolitionists, but to understand them, warts and all.
by Allan Arkush via Jewish Review of Books on April 7, 2025
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

Chamberlain’s War

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain is remarkable not only for his sacrifices on behalf of the Union, but also for the moral imagination that inspired him.
by Mitchell G. Klingenberg via Law & Liberty on February 28, 2025
A drawing of Confederate soldiers on horseback violently forcing Black people to walk south.

After Confederate Forces Took Their Children, These Black Mothers Fought to Reunite Their Families

Confederates kidnapped free Black people to sell into slavery. After the war, two women sought help from high places to track down their lost loved ones.
by Robert K. D. Colby via Smithsonian Magazine on February 6, 2025
Black men stand on trains derailed by Sherman's destruction of infrastructure.

The Other Side of Sherman’s March

The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army, though, it was a shot at freedom.
by Scott Spillman via The New Yorker on January 29, 2025
Drawings of refugees arriving at Fort Monroe.
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Expect Freedom Upon Arrival

On the slow path to federal action on emancipation during the Civil War.
by Bennett Parten via HNN on January 22, 2025
A group of indigenous Pacific Islanders forced to work on a sugar plantation, with a white overseer in the background.

How ‘Blackbirders’ Forced Tens of Thousands of Pacific Islanders Into Slavery After the Civil War

The decline of Southern industries paved the way for plantations in Fiji and Australia, where victims of “blackbirding” endured horrific working conditions.
by Shoshi Parks via Smithsonian Magazine on December 5, 2024
Church with graveyard.

Divided Providence

Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War.
by Robert Wilson via The American Scholar on December 2, 2024
Political cartoon depicting contrabands carrying cannons, oblivious to their exploitation by the U.S. Army.

Racism and the Limits of Imagination in the United States and the Confederacy

Why did it take so long for the U.S. Army to authorize the enlistment of Black men as soldiers?
by Kevin M. Levin via Civil War Memory on December 1, 2024
A Public Health Services physician checking a woman immigrating into the United States for illness.

How the Irish Became Everything

Two new books explore the messy complexities of immigration—from the era of Lincoln to Irish New York.
by Tom Deignan via Commonweal on November 1, 2024
The Geologic Time Spiral showing different periods over millions of years.

Deep Time and the Civil War Dead

The Civil War's vast death toll joined Earth's deep time story, magnifying its meaning as part of God's creative acts across eons.
by Caroline Winterer via Princeton University Press on October 15, 2024
Ulysses S. Grant finishing his memoir shortly before he died.

Grant vs. the Klan

New books reconsider how Ulysses S. Grant became a forceful defender of the rights of African Americans after the Civil War.
by David S. Reynolds via New York Review of Books on September 26, 2024
Man burning a picture of Abraham Lincoln.

City on Fire

The night violent anti-government conspirators sowed chaos in the heart of Manhattan.
by Betsy Golden Kellem via The Atavist on September 24, 2024
A sign that reads "In God We Trust" over the seal of the United States.

Mainline Protestants and Christian Nationalism

Exploring the role mainline Protestants have played in promoting the idea of America as a Christian country.
by Brian Kaylor, Beau Underwood via The Revealer on September 5, 2024
A photograph of the battlefield at Antietam.
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A Remote Reality

Depictions of Antietam couldn’t possible capture the magnitude of the battle’s horror.
by Stephen Budiansky via HNN on September 3, 2024
Aurora Borealis painting by Frederic Edwin Church, 1865.
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A Nice Metaphor for the Country

On the 1860 Republican National Convention in Chicago.
by Jon Grinspan via HNN on August 20, 2024
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