Civil War

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  • "Cold Mountain"

    Anthony Minghella's pretty, star-studded adaptation of the bestselling Civil War romance never makes it above freezing. And, gee, didn't those Southern whites have it rough?
    By Stephanie Zacharek December 25, 2003

  • The gentleman general

    Humorist Roy Blount Jr.'s slim biography of Robert E. Lee is touching and comprehensive, but he misses the boat on the Southern warrior's military genius. Most historians do.
    By Allen Barra June 9, 2003

  • "Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam 1862" by James M. McPherson

    The great historian James McPherson presents his account of Antietam, the savage Civil War battle that made the freeing of the slaves possible.
    By Katharine Whittemore September 17, 2002

  • "Gettysburg" by Noah Andre Trudeau

    A new book proves that you can tell the story of this legendary battle in a new way -- from the point of view of the men who fought it.
    By Allen Barra August 21, 2002

  • Brady's portrait of Grant

    On a June afternoon in 1864, Mathew Brady invented candid portrait photography -- and changed our vision of American masculinity.
    By Jeff Galipeaux April 22, 2002

  • Better than a saint

    A new biography removes Abraham Lincoln's halo, revealing a man whose sheer human goodness remains mysterious.
    By Laura Miller February 12, 2002

  • Success and failure of a Southern man

    Strivers, ass kissers, carpetbaggers, Pilgrims, Sherman's March and my mom.
    By Cary Tennis April 24, 2001

  • What are we fighting for?

    Colombia's civil war puts children on the front lines.
    By Michael Easterbrook January 11, 2001

  • Ground zero in the Colombian drug war

    The U.S.-backed Plan Colombia will soon touch down in a region battered by civil war and central to the cocaine trade -- will it ignite the conflict?
    By Ana Arana December 5, 2000

  • An eerie campaign silence

    Bush and Gore should tell us where they stand on the ugly $1.3 billion drug war offensive in Colombia that the next president will have to face.
    By Arianna Huffington September 1, 2000

  • Returning to a place we've never seen

    Frances FitzGerald, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Fire in the Lake," says Americans still get Vietnam wrong because we can't stop looking at our collective American navel.
    By Fiona Morgan April 28, 2000

  • "Dead, I can't do anything"

    Francisco Santos, a former kidnap victim of drug lord Pablo Escobar, became a symbol of hope for Colombians weary of violence and fear. But when leftist guerrillas ordered him killed, he had to flee to the U.S.
    By Ana Arana April 5, 2000

  • Painting insanity black

    Why are there more black schizophrenics?
    By Annie Murphy Paul December 1, 1999

  • "Ride With the Devil"

    Ang Lee's dark and sober fable might be the most interesting and least dogmatic view of the Civil War to wend its way into the multiplexes.
    By Andrew O'Hehir November 24, 1999

  • Terrible swift sword

    David Bowman reviews "Cloudsplitter," Russell Banks' effort at the Great American Novel, an ambitious resurrection of the life and times of anti-slavery crusader John Brown.
    By David Bowman December 3, 1998

  • Mountain man

    A profile of Charles Frazier, author of "Cold Mountain."
    By Laura Miller July 9, 1997

  • Drawn With The Sword

    Katherine Whittemore reviews "Drawn With The Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War" by James M. McPherson.
    By Katharine Whittemore May 9, 1996
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