The Disgraceful Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn's polemical history of the United States is distorted, manipulative, and dishonest.
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Articles by Michael Burlingame
Rehabilitating Grant
Does U.S. Grant deserve his sordid reputation?
The Great Emancipation
A review of Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865, by James Oakes
A People’s Contest
A review of Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction, by Allen C. Guelzo and This Great Struggle: America's Civil War, by Steven E. Woodworth
Why They Fought
A review of The Union War, by Gary W. Gallagher