News coverage of Civil War events continued to run high this past week as the nation remembers the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the conflict. The main event this week in history was Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration as president on March 4, 1861. William C. Kashatus of the Philadelphia Inquirer provided a thoughtful overview of [...]

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The 150th anniversary of President-Elect Lincoln‘s tense arrival in Washington has provoked several evocative blog posts. Ted Widmer, director of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, provides a comprehensive decscription about Lincoln’s travels for the “Disunion” blog at the New York Times. Through several posts (see especially 2/10, 2/21 and 2/22) Widmer traces the route from [...]

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The Sons of Confederate Veterans’ recent proposal for a Mississippi state-issued license plate in honor Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, who was also an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan, has become the issue of considerable national attention. This controversy has been heightened with the refusal of Governor Haley Barbour to publicly denounce the [...]

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