Society Books & the Arts September 21, 2011 The Truth About the Civil War Too many Americans have fallen prey to narratives that erase the role of slavery in the war’s origins and legacy.

The Civil War is about to loom very large in the popular memory. We would do well to be candid about its causes and not allow the distortions of contemporary politics or long-standing myths to ...

But the true history and the real heritage of the South and the Civil War are not this facade they pay homage to. They are in love with a lie. Knocking down the statues, though, won’t correct ...

A college professor and his students counted words in secession documents to determine what really caused the Civil War.

The Spanish Civil War forced journalists and partisans into this crucible. The 1930s conflict tested supposed truth-tellers as it spiraled into something much more complicated than a battle ...

Opinion The Truth about the Confederacy: Despite the denials, the Civil War was all about slavery Published: May. 09, 2010, 9:01 a.m.

As the Civil War progressed, this resistance catalyzed into what Du Bois famously termed “the general strike.” Enslaved people fled plantations, organized work stoppages and slow downs, nursed union ...

What America is going through is less like a civil war and more like Brexit — a lumbering, mutual decision to go separate ways on most things but remain connected on a few big things (such as ...

Anyone who believes or pretends to believe that the Civil War was about states’ rights should read Ulysses S. Grant’s memoirs, which point out that the truth was almost the opposite.

But if anyone is thinking about writing a Civil War film, I would hope that he or she would write one with an unabashedly pro-Union perspective — a film that foregrounds slavery and takes a ...

But historian Hari Jones, Assistant Director of the African-American Civil War Museum in Washington, D.C., says many are misinformed about the true significance of the holiday.

Seven Obscure Facts You Didn’t Know About the Civil War Amid the vast literature of the Civil War, it’s easy to lose sight of some of the stranger facts, coincidences and quirks of character ...