My New York Times Journey in May - Grant and the Unexpected Victory at Shiloh

I'll be on this New York Times Journey, talking about the roles of Grant and Sherman, Beauregard and Nathan Bedford Forrest, but also the tactical and strategic intelligence battles that played a vital, if largely neglected, role in this first truly bloody confrontation of the American Civil War. It was supposed to end the conflict. What it did in fact was give a taste of the horrors to come.

Civil War History and Contemporary Events: Essays by Christopher Dickey

After the publication in July 2015 of Our Man in Charleston, which, by pure coincidence, came just after the tragic murders at Emanuel A.M.E. Church, I wrote several essays drawing on the research for the book and suggesting what it might tell us about current events.

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Confederate Madness Then and Now

Jul 14, 2015 1:10 AM EDT

A British consul witnessed the cynical process that plunged the United States into civil war in the...MORE

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Confederates in the Blood

Jul 21, 2015 1:00 AM EDT

My new book looks at the raw truths of Southern history, but my family has been living that... MORE

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Cuba’s Star-Spangled Slavery

Aug 15, 2015 12:13 AM EDT

The Stars and Stripes, not the Confederate flag, once represented the sordid system of human...MORE

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Ken Burns’ ‘Civil War’ After Dylann Roof

Sep 6, 2015 12:01 AM EDT

The PBS documentary turns 25 this year, just as the Charleston murders and the Confederate flag... MORE

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America’s History of Guns and Slavery

Dec 6, 2015 8:31 AM EST

The grim history of gun violence in the United States goes way back, aided and abetted by the same... MORE

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