My article on Thomas Morris Chester, Black news correspondant in the Civil War, is posted at New York Times: Disunion. A few words (that didn’t fit…
Historians writing about General Benjamin Butler love to point out his not-ready-for-Hollywood personal appearance. “His features were brutish,” Adam Goodheart says in 1861, adding a…
Grant’s cabin at City Point: it is seriously small, leaving no doubt of Mr. and Mrs. Grant’s genuine love and physical affection for each other.…