Quarters for African American Soldiers

Our Black History Month Celebration continues with this Harper’s Weekly depiction of “Negro Quarters, Army of the James.”

Image Credit: Harper’s Weekly, February 25, 1865.

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Am Interview with Richard Fox

Our conversation with Richard Fox, Professor of history at the University of Southern California and recent author of “Lincoln’s Body: A Cultural History,” now out with W.W. Norton. In this…