Lessons from Lincoln's Press War
When another journalist attacked William Howard Russell for having misreported the battle of Bull Run, Russell dismissed his critic as “revolting mucus.” In 1862 the Chicago Times deemed President Abraham Lincoln an “irresolute, vacillating...News From Around the South 12/22 to 12/29
TENNESSEE: One of Andrew Jackson’s Prized Possessions Back at Hermitage Of all the tokens of appreciation governments sent him after the Battle of New Orleans, a small gold box, about the size of a deck of cards, was one of only five Jackson mentioned in his...Civil War PTSD
In the summer of 1862, John Hildt lost a limb. Then he lost his mind. The 25-year-old corporal from Michigan saw combat for the first time at the Seven Days Battle in Virginia, where he was shot in the right arm. Doctors amputated his shattered limb close to...
Playing With Fire
In July of 1870, King Wilhelm sent Foreign Minister Bismarck an account of his meeting with a French envoy who had demanded that the king renounce any Hohenzollern claim to the Spanish throne. Bismarck edited the report to make it appear the Frenchman had insulted the...Obiter Dicta
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