Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the U.S. right now and a totally different period of American history. Most ...

The American Civil War was defined not only by its political and moral issues, but by a series of brutal, high-casualty battles. These conflicts altered the nation’s history and landscape. Fought on ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Some Civil War historians see echoes of the past in recent political violence and growing disillusionment with the ...

Now, all of this being said, a civil war will necessarily require a scope and intensity of engagement on the part of civilians that’s never been expected of them with respect to foreign wars. It will ...