My Recent Essays on Cuba, Slave Spies in the Confederacy, the Capture of a Terrorist, and The Phantom Palace of Paris

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  Will Obama Meet the Invisible Cubans?

  Mar 21, 2016 8:54 AM EDT
  

  As the U.S.... MORE

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  Black Spies in a Confederate White House

  Mar 20, 2016 12:01 AM EDT
  

  How a secret intelligence network successfully spied on Confederate leader Jefferson Davis in his... MORE

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  ‘Most-Wanted’ Terrorist Caught

  Mar 18, 2016 7:07 PM EDT
  

  Salah Abdeslam did not escape to Syria, he just went back to his old ’hood in Belgium, where people... MORE

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  The Phantom Palace of Paris

  Mar 13, 2016 12:01 AM EST
  

  The Parisian residence of kings and emperors disappeared almost 150 years ago, but its shadow, and... MORE

Recent Writings About the American Civil War Past and Present

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  Ken Burns' 'Civil War' After Dylann Roof

  Sep 6, 2015 12:01 AM EDT
  The PBS documentary turns 25 this year, just as the Charleston murders and the Confederate flag... MORE
  

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Cuba's Star-Spangled Slavery

Aug 15, 2015 12:13 AM EDT
The Stars and Stripes, not the Confederate flag, once represented the sordid system of human... MORE

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A British Spy in the Civil War South

Jul 27, 2015 11:45 AM EDT
Dickey describes his research into the story of British spy Robert Bunch, who watched the... MORE

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Confederates in the Blood

Jul 21, 2015 1:00 AM EDT
My new book looks at the raw truths of Southern history, but my family has been living that... MORE

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Confederate Madness Then and Now

Jul 14, 2015 1:10 AM EDT
A British consul witnessed the cynical process that plunged the United States into civil war in the... MORE