Shelby Foote, failed novelist and closeted member of the Tribe, turned the Civil War into a masterpiece of American literature
Suspected of orchestrating the Lincoln assassination, the South’s most prominent Jew escaped to London to start a new life as a high-powered lawyer. The U.S. government secretly tried to bring him home to face justice.
America is lurching toward collapse. Its democratic norms will bring about its final unraveling.
It’s time to embrace what that means for the country’s future
Sean Wilentz says it’s complicated
Revisionists (but not Richard Spencer) want the equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee removed from a park in Charlottesville, Virginia, my hometown. What they don’t realize is that it’s not the only memorial there.
What Walt Whitman can tell us about our democracy
A project at the National Archives to identify all the Jewish soldiers of the great American conflict is turning up more than expected
What the movie star could learn from the story of a woman who shared with her family, over Passover, that they had once owned slaves
NYC exhibit sparks memories of my father’s love of the 16th U.S. President
A historical debate hatches in New York
Looking at the infamous Civil War edict
Spielberg’s Civil War biopic portrays a man leading his people to the gates of the Promised Land
How history lost Judah P. Benjamin, the most prominent American Jew of the 19th century
Charges have dogged American Jews since the 1868 election, as Jonathan Sarna explains in ‘When General Grant Expelled the Jews’
The Civil War divded more than just North and South
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in U.S. history, hails not from the urban melting pot but from a Southern, explicitly Christian America
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