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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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2nd Look

The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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