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Was Confederate Captain Henry Wirz America’s first war criminal, or was he merely a scapegoat? Captain Henry Wirz, a Swiss citizen and Confederate officer during the American Civil War, was commandant of the infamous Andersonville Prison in Georgia. In August 1865, Wirz faced the first war crimes trial by a military tribunal in American history, …
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Abraham Lincoln Greets General and Mrs. Tom ThumbIt was America’s first full-blown celebrity wedding, choreographed, publicized and staged by P.T. Barnum, the genius of hype, and it came in the depths of the Civil War, when Ameri… Read MoreInterview with John W. Dean, counsel to President NixonWhat did the president know and when did he know it? Forty years ago, in the summer of 1973, a little-known 34-year-old White House counsel, John W. Dean, delivered riveting televi… Read MoreLincoln at PetersburgThe 16th president had an emotional real-life encounter with black soldiers you won’t see in Spielberg’s Lincoln. When Steven Spielberg’s film Lincoln appeared last year, we were u… Read MoreAn Alaskan Village Holds the Key to Understanding the 1918 Spanish FluScientists had never seen anything like it. Considered the worst pandemic in history, the Spanish flu started in 1917 and, in less than two years, killed approximately 50 million p… Read MoreLetter from the Editor- American History October 2013Opportunities Lost and Found In our collective mind’s eye are certain photographic images that have served to define people, places and events for generations. Among the most power… Read More
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