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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

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

King, Kennedy, and the Power of Words

by Tim Wendel

April 4th marked the 53rd anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. That night in 1968, presidential candidate Robert Kennedy broke the news to an Indianapolis crowd gathered for one of his rallies. “Listening to the speech decades later is to be reminded of the real power of words,” writes Tim Wendel in this 2012 essay. “How they can heal, how they can still bring us together, but only if they are spoken with conviction and from the heart.”

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