Curated category
Historians of the American Civil War
- Elizabeth D. LeonardElizabeth D. Leonard once appeared in a C-SPAN special about the history of Augusta, Maine. It was an unexpected pairing, since her scholarly work centers on…
- James M. McPhersonJames M. McPherson once said that a historian's job is to cut through the myths a people tell about itself, and get closer to reality.
- Lesley J. GordonLesley J. Gordon has spent her career picking apart a myth built by a grieving widow. After Confederate general George E.
- Gabor BorittGabor Boritt was born in 1940 to a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary. The Nazis forced his family into a single room within a hospital on the edge of the…
- C. Vann WoodwardC. Vann Woodward was born on the 13th of November 1908, in Vanndale, Arkansas, a small town that bore his own mother's family name and had served as a county…
- Allan NevinsAllan Nevins grew up on a farm in Camp Point, Illinois, the son of a stern Presbyterian farmer of Scottish descent and a German-heritage mother named Emma.
- Shelby FooteShelby Dade Foote Jr. was born on the 17th of November 1916 in Greenville, Mississippi. His father worked for Armour and Company, moving the family from…
- Bruce CattonBruce Catton grew up in Benzonia, Michigan, listening to old men describe what it felt like to march into battle. He was born on the 9th of October, 1899…
- David W. BlightDavid William Blight was born on the 21st of March 1949, in Flint, Michigan, where his family lived in a mobile home park.
- E. Merton CoulterE. Merton Coulter served as the first president of the Southern Historical Association in 1934. He edited the Georgia Historical Quarterly for fifty years.
- Stephen B. OatesStephen Baery Oates spent decades asking a single uncomfortable question: what does it cost a person to fight for equality in America?