Chris Bohjalian’s 25th novel, “The Jackal’s Mistress,” was inspired by the true story of a Southern woman who helped an ...
The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...
Civil War America, a small number of Jewish slaveowners defended the practice. Other prominent Jews joined with abolitionists ...
Historical novelists Chris Bohjalian and Christina Baker Kline for a discussion about Bohjalian’s latest book, “The Jackal’s ...
Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second ...
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Why Jews were like everyone else — only more so — during slavery and the Civil WarRichard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American ...
Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Elsewhere in the country, parts of the rebel army ...
At the young age of 29, the Scranton-born soldier succumbed to injuries received in battle. Creeping up on nearly two ...
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