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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

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

Tea and Fantasy

Fact, fiction, and revolution in an American town

by Adam Goodheart | Thursday, September 01, 2005
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Domestic Insurrection

by Adam Goodheart | Friday, September 01, 2006
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Reaching Point Comfort

by Adam Goodheart | Wednesday, September 01, 2004
Civil Warfare in the Streets

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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What Is a Dog?

by Chloe Shaw

We admit that unofficial, national fill-in-the-blank days can sometimes feel contrived. (National Pizza with the Works Except Anchovies Day, anyone?) But National Hug Your Dog Day (April 10) is too good not to celebrate, especially if it means we can revisit one of our favorite essays: Chloe Shaw’s “What Is a Dog?” from our Spring 2018 issue. After losing a beloved hound named Booker—described as a “wolf meets horse meets dinosaur meets tongue”—Shaw confronts the joys and inevitable sorrows of loving a pet. “A dog is a second chance. A dog is death and life. A dog is plush red carpet and fresh warm pee.” A dog is worth celebrating, and not only on April 10.