Both amateur and academic symposia on the Civil War sometimes entertain the question of whether that conflict could have been avoided. William…
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The distinguished historian David Herbert Donald once tried to prompt John F. Kennedy to evaluate the performances of his predecessors. “No on…
One of them campaigned for income supplements for veterans of the American Revolution. Another came into prominence for vetoing an inflated st…
For the better part of spring, I’ve been immersed in the troubling events of an election year — 1860, to be precise. The similarities between …