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Adam Goodheart

Adam Goodheart is the author of 1861:The Civil War Awakening. He is director of Washington College’s C. V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience. He was a founding editor of Civilization magazine, and his essays have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, Outside, and other publications

The Last Island of the Savages

Journeying to the Andaman Islands to meet the most isolated tribe on Earth

by Adam Goodheart | Tuesday, September 05, 2000

Tea and Fantasy

Fact, fiction, and revolution in an American town

by Adam Goodheart | Thursday, September 01, 2005

Domestic Insurrection

by Adam Goodheart | Friday, September 01, 2006

Reaching Point Comfort

by Adam Goodheart | Wednesday, September 01, 2004

Civil Warfare in the Streets

After Fort Sumter, German immigrants in St. Louis flocked to the Union cause and in bloody confrontations overthrew the local secessionists

by Adam Goodheart | Wednesday, March 02, 2011

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THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

School Survival

by Anne P. Beatty

As L.A. teachers prepare to go on strike, we’re revisiting an essay by Anne P. Beatty about her time teaching high school in South Central Los Angeles, where her homeroom class often paused for a moment of silence to mourn students who had died in drive-by shootings. Her students knew that this was not the case in wealthier school districts. “They knew that somewhere there were schools with computers that worked, just as they knew that somewhere it was safe to walk through the streets at night,” Beatty writes. “They knew it wasn’t normal for 16-year-olds to die.” But what she found shocking, her students had to learn to endure. “Apathy was involved in giving in to the violence, and there was despair over the prospect of a better future.”