Articles with keyword "Civil War Era"
Curio
Confederate Cattle Call
There is pleasure to be had in looking to the past for examples of the familiar or near familiar. But one can also look to it for a good blast of the freaky, the strange, and the unrecognizable.
In Focus
West Virginia's Ken Sullivan
Ken Sullivan stresses the role of the Civil War in the formation of his state.
Feature
The Man Who Came in Second
In 1860, John C. Breckinridge ran for president against Lincoln, and broke the Democrats in two.