The New York Times' Disunion: A History of the Civil War

By Edward L. Widmer, George Kalogerakis, Clay Risen

"Between 2011 and 2015, the Opinion section of The New York Times published Disunion, a series marking the long string of anniversaries around the Civil War, the most destructive, and most defining...

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By Edward L. Widmer, George Kalogerakis, Clay Risen

"Modern historians revisit and reconsider the Civil War from Lincoln's election to the Emancipation Proclamation."

The bill of the century

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Offers a full account of the complex battle to get the Civil Rights bill passed. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American hist...

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