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Glenn W. LaFantasie

Glenn W. LaFantasie is the Richard Frockt Family Professor of Civil War History at Western Kentucky University. He is working on a book about Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant.

From the Civil War to James Bond in one quick step

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Robert E. Lee

The Confederate we still don’t know

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The thoroughly American soul of John Brown

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The changing face of Abraham Lincoln

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Why the presidency aged Lincoln so dramatically

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Left: Jefferson Davis

The Confederacy comes to Kentucky

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Fort Sumter

The foolishness of Civil War reenactors

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The erosion of the Civil War consensus

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Former presidents Buchanan and Bush

Who’s the worst president of them all?

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James Fremont and Sarah Palin

Actually, we already had a Palin White House campaign

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John L. Magee lithograph depicts Preston Brooks's attack on Charles Sumner in 1856.

Our permanent culture of political violence

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The top 12 Civil War books ever written

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How the South rationalizes secession

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Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox on April 9, 1865

And if Gen. Lee hadn’t surrendered at Appomattox …

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