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September 20, 2019Why does the brief period known as Reconstruction, a century and a half ago, still influence the state of the Union so heavily? As the eminent historian Eric Foner explains in...
May 31, 2019N THE SPRING of 1864, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was fighting in the Civil War as a Union Army captain. He had enlisted three years earlier, soon after the war began, when he was...
