Stuart Stevens has spent his long career in politics working to get Republicans elected. He ran Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign. But Stevens’ latest book is a warning to the nation about today's GOP and its threat to America’s democracy. The book is called "The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy."
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This is John Huddleston. The writer, creator of This Week in the Civil War. Since March of 2011, its been my distinct pleasure to write vignettes on the…
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Andrew Johnson, Tennessee Unionist, vice president, and president after Lincoln’s assassination favored a liberal Reconstruction policy after the war.…
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Ulysses Grant, commander of all Union forces during the war, assumed a similar post in the war’s aftermath and had to deal with both Maximilian and the…
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George Armstrong Custer developed a reputation during the Civil War as a flamboyant, yet highly effective Union cavalry commander who personally led his…
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Confederate General Joseph Johnston struggled financially after the war. He became president of a small railroad company until 1868, when he then…
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After the war, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman served as Commanding General of the United States Army, 1869 to 1883. During that time, he also…
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Four individuals—Samuel Arnold, Michael O’Laughlen, Edman Spangler, and Samuel Mudd-- did not receive the death penalty for conspiracy in Lincoln’s death.…
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Dr. Samuel Mudd, convicted of conspiracy in Lincoln’s death, narrowly escaping the death penalty but was sentenced to life imprisonment. While there is no…
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Wilmer McLean, the Virginia wholesale grocery of whom it can be proclaimed that the Civil War “began in his front yard and ended in his front parlor”…
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Union general Joshua Chamberlain, the Maine college professor whose gallantry at Gettysburg earned the Congressional Medal of Honor, resigned from the…