David S. Reynolds

When Slaves Fled to Mexico

A new book tells the forgotten story of fugitive slaves who found freedom south of the border.

South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

by Alice L. Baumgartner

May 13, 2021 issue

I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do…

Polygamy: An Early American History

by Sarah M.S. Pearsall

April 9, 2020 issue

The Popery Panic

Escaped Nuns: True Womanhood and the Campaign Against Convents in Antebellum America

by Cassandra L. Yacovazzi

Elizabeth Seton: American Saint

by Catherine O’Donnell

April 18, 2019 issue

Fine Specimens

‘The Afterlives of Specimens: Science, Mourning, and Whitman’s Civil War’ by Lindsay Tuggle

The Afterlives of Specimens: Science, Mourning, and Whitman’s Civil War

by Lindsay Tuggle

Drum-Taps: The Complete 1865 Edition

by Walt Whitman, edited by Lawrence Kramer

March 22, 2018 issue

The Slave Owners’ Foreign Policy

This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy

by Matthew Karp

June 22, 2017 issue

Our Ruinous Betrayal of Indians and Black Americans

Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation

by Nicholas Guyatt

December 22, 2016 issue

The Commander of Civil War History

Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief

by James M. McPherson

The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters

by James M. McPherson

November 19, 2015 issue

An Exchange on John Brown

May 9, 2013 issue

Letter

Were Hawthorne’s Politics ‘Disgraceful’?

July 11, 2013 issue

Judging the Age of Jackson: An Exchange

July 2, 2009 issue

The Concise Whitman

November 3, 2005 issue

Loading the Canon

January 19, 1989 issue