Launched in 2011, "Disunion revisits and reconsiders America’s most perilous period — using contemporary accounts, diaries, images and historical assessments to follow the Civil War as it unfolded." The series ended in June of 2016. The full archive of posts is available at the New York Times website.
James Downs
The Economist Considers Slavery and the Response is Immediate (A Round Up)
On Sept 4, 2014, the Economist reviewed Edward Baptist's The Half Has Never Been Told: "So Mr Baptist, an historian at Cornell University, is not being especially contentious when he says that America owed much of its early growth to the foreign exchange, cheaper raw materials and expanding markets provided by a slave-produced commodity. But … Continue reading The Economist Considers Slavery and the Response is Immediate (A Round Up)
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