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American civil war
June 2024
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
Wide Awakes: the young Americans who marched the north to civil war
Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate names to two public schools
April 2024
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
‘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
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
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
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
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
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
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Nikki Haley declines to say US civil war was about slavery – video
Nikki Haley declines to say slavery was cause of US civil war
‘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
Longstreet: the Confederate general who switched sides on race
November 2023
‘It has to be done’: can Reconstruction-era laws hold Trump and allies accountable?
Rarely used but relevant laws could be key to removing Trump from the ballot for his stoking of the January 6 Capitol attack
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