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News

• Slave Sale Reenactment Held in St. Louis As Part Of Civil War Anniversary


• SC cadets re-enact 1861 firing on US supply ship


• Civil War-Related National Parks Schedule Commemorative Events for Civil War 150th Anniversary


• The largest slave revolt in U.S. history is commemorated


• Fort Sumter and Bull Run Stamps Will Lead Off Civil War 150th Anniversary Commemorative Series


• Civil War, 150 Years Later, Still Divides Our Nation


• NY, other states scrimp on Civil War anniversary


• South Carolina Secession Draws Debate 150 Years Later


• Civil War's 150th anniversary stirs debate on race


• Celebrate or commemorate: Debate rages over Civil War anniversary


• Confederate flag flap alive again in Lexington


• 150 Cannon-Shot Salute Will Highlight Kickoff of Gettysburg's 150th Anniversary Commemoration of the Civil War


• Celebrating Secession Without the Slaves


• Celebrate or commemorate: Debate rages over Civil War anniversary

Commentary: Historians

• Glenn W. LaFantasie: The foolishness of Civil War reenactors


• James W. Loewen: On Going Viral: Reflections on Why the South Really Seceded


• Robert E. May: Slavery was the Central, But Not the Only, Cause of the Civil War


• James W. Loewen: Five Myths About Why the South Seceded


• Thomas Fleming: Why the Civil War Happened


• Eric Foner: The American civil war still being fought


• Of Course the Civil War Was About Slavery, Say Civil War Historians


• Manisha Sinha: South Carolina's Secession at 150


• Ethan J. Kytle and Blain Roberts: Still Fighting the Civil War in South Carolina


• Historians: Civil War about slavery (obviously)


• Jonathan Zimmerman: Civil War Relativists are on the Right - and Wrong


• Glenn W. LaFantasie: And If Gen. Lee Hadn't Surrendered at Appomattox

NYT: Disunion Blog

The following is a directory listing of the New York Times' award-winning Civil War history blog Disunion, featuring articles written by historians about the prelude to the Civil War.

• • JOHN ASHWORTH: What the North Got Wrong
  
  
  • ELIZABETH R. VARON: Women at War
  
  
  • RICHARD PARKER: Sam Houston, We Have a Problem
  
  
  • JAMIE MALANOWSKI: Two Out, One In
  
  
  • TED WIDMER: Lincoln’s Other Mother
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: ‘Shoot Him on the Spot’
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: The South Rises Again – and Again, and Again
  
  
  • RUSSELL MCCLINTOCK: Old Hickory’s Ghost
  
  
  • HAROLD HOLZER: A Blot on Lincoln Historians
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: A Short Stay – and a Long Jump
  
  
  • LOIS LEVEEN: The North of the South
  
  
  • JAMIE MALANOWSKI: Showdown in Georgia
  
  
  • DANIEL W. CROFTS: ‘No Better Southern Man’
  
  
  • KEVIN M. LEVIN: Teaching Civil War History 2.0
  
  
  • HAROLD HOLZER: The Critter Himself
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: Freaks at Yale
  
  
  • CARLA L. PETERSON: Dr. Smith’s Back Room
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: The Woman Who Saved the Union?
  
  
  • WILLIAM MOSS WILSON: Lincoln’s Mexican Visitor
  
  
  • JAMIE MALANOWSKI: Declining War, Rejecting Peace
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: The Bear Wars
  
  
  • ED WIDMER: The Hellcat
  
  
  • DAVID ELTIS AND DAVID RICHARDSON: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Civil War
  
  
  • SUSAN SCHULTEN: Last Chance for Compromise
  
  
  • DANIEL W. CROFTS: A Baptism of Blood?
  
  
  • TOM CHAFFIN: Abe Lincoln and Filibuster Fever
  
  
  • JAMIE MALANOWSKI: Is This War?
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: Loose Lips (Almost) Sink Ships
  
  
  • JOHN LOCKWOOD and CHARLES LOCKWOOD: First South Carolina. Then New York?
  
  
  • WILLIAM W. FREEHLING: James Buchanan’s Activist Blunder
  
  
  • RONALD S. CODDINGTON: The Precarious Position of Lt. Reese
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: Caught Sleeping
  
  
  • JAMIE MALANOWSKI: War in the Cabinet
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: Seceding from Secession
  
  
  • RUSSELL MCCLINTOCK: Rethinking the Old Public Functionary
  
  
  • TOM CHAFFIN: The Messianic Schoolmaster
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: The General’s Dyspepsia
  
  
  • DAVID BLIGHT: Cup of Wrath and Fire
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: Three Flags
  
  
  • JAMIE MALANOWSKI: A Coup de Main in Charleston Harbor
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: The Night Escape
  
  
  • TED WIDMER: Christmas With Lincoln
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: Ghosts of a Christmas Past
  
  
  • JOHN STAUFFER: Fear and Doubt in Cleveland
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: The Narrowest of Loopholes
  
  
  • BLAIN ROBERTS and ETHAN J. KYTLE: Dancing Around History
  
  
  • PAUL FINKELMAN: States’ Rights, but to What?
  
  
  • LOUIS P. MASUR: Diary of a New York Lawyer
  
  
  • JAMIE MALANOWSKI: The Government Disintegrates as the Union Dissolves
  
  
  • TED WIDMER: The Tailor Draws a Line
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: The Happiest Man in the South
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: In Whitman’s Pocket, an Imagined Lincoln
  
  
  • RICHARD STRINER: How Lincoln Undid the Union
  
  
  • JAMIE MALANOWSKI: Will the North Compromise Or Hold Fast?
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: Mrs. Doubleday’s Indiscretion
  
  
  • SUSAN SCHULTEN: Visualizing Slavery
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: Famine in Kansas
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: A Gentlemen’s Agreement at the White House
  
  
  • TED WIDMER: Misgivings
  
  
  • JAMIE MALANOWSKI: Buchanan: Too Little, Too Late
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: Hero of Two Worlds
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: Two Communiqués, and a Commander’s Dilemma
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: Silencing the Fanatics
  
  
  • JAMES C. COBB: The Cultural Roots of Disunion
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: The Assassin’s Debut
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: Moses’ Last Exodus
  
  
  • JAMIE MALANOWSKI: Off the Record, Behind the Scenes
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: The Bedfellows’ Reunion
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: Lincoln: A Beard Is Born
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: An American Thanksgiving, Skewered and Roasted
  
  
  • HAROLD HOLZER: The Sound of Lincoln’s Silence
  
  
  • TED WIDMER: Lincoln Speaks
  
  
  • JAMIE MALANOWSKI: Drama in Milledgeville
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: A Quiet Man’s Arrival
  
  
  • JOHN J. MILLER: Tea-Partying Like It’s 1860
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: Jim Crow on West Broadway
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: Female Partisans
  
  
  • JAMIE MALANOWSKI: A Superabundance of Velocity
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: Travels of a Teenage Prince
  
  
  • TED WIDMER: Lincoln’s Mailbag
  
  
  • LOUIS P. MASUR: A Slaveholder’s Diary
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: A Senator Secedes – Reluctantly
  
  
  • JAMIE MALANOWSKI: Would the South Really Leave?
  
  
  • SUSAN SCHULTEN: How (and Where) Lincoln Won
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: Return of the Samurai
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: Georgia to U.S.: ‘Don’t Tread on Me’
  
  
  • JAMIE MALANOWSKI: Lincoln Wins. Now What?
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: The Abolitionist’s Epiphany
  
  
  • TED WIDMER: Hearing the Returns with Mr. Lincoln
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: A Lincoln Photograph – and a Mystery
  
  
  • TED WIDMER: Silence Before the Storm
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: A Slave Ship in New York
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: Premonition at Vicksburg
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: Head-Stompers, Wrench-Swingers and Wide Awakes
  
  
  • ADAM GOODHEART: The Last Ordinary Day
  
  
  • JAMIE MALANOWSKI: Will Lincoln Prevail?