Lincoln Caplan

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  • September 20, 2019
    Why 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, 2019
    N 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...