Negative Space: Civil War
- Behind the crime: Is it murder if they’re Yankees?
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Musings on writing the epic novel It Isn’t Murder If They’re Yankees, and its relation to current events in publishing, entertainment, and politics.
- The Civil War in Popular Culture
- Shelby Foote called the Civil War “The crossroads of our being” as Americans. Cullen writes that “officially, the Civil War ended in 1865, but culturally, it was just beginning.” The war’s meaning was at stake; if history can be said to be written by the victor, outside observers might find it hard to understand that the South lost the war.
- I have read a fiery gospel
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“Be swift my soul to answer him, be jubilant my feet.” Written a hundred and fifty-nine years ago today, this rousing abolitionist song remains a fiery call for freedom from tyranny.
- The Legend of the Nightriders
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Hundreds of people dead, and almost no records, in rural Louisiana following the Civil War. Truth? Legend? Or something in between? Jack Peebles takes newly-discovered newspaper articles and shows us the possibility of truth in old stories about the Harrisonburg Road.
- The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln
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As the founding president of the Republican Party and the man who guided the United States through the incredible sacrifices of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery, Abraham Lincoln deserves more than adulation. He deserves to be read.
- Memorial Day—Thank you
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“The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here; while it can never forget what they did here.”
- Senator Kamala Harris calls for slavery reparations
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California Senator and 2020 presidential candidate Kamala Harris calls on Democrats to support reparations to descendants of former slaves, and to descendants of Union soldiers who died freeing them.
- ‘They were not patriots’: New Orleans removes monument to Democrats
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Monuments to Democrats are increasingly under fire in their former firewall states.
