"Rule or Ruin": Lessons from the Confederacy about the Fatal Arrogance of Secession

https://www.thedailybeast.com/from-the-confederacy-to-catalonia-the-arrogance-of-secession

Recent writings: How a British Spy Drank His Way Across the Americas—and Missed the Civil War

Exploring the mystery that first led me to Our Man in Charleston.

How a British Spy Drank His Way Across the Americas

Richard Francis Burton was one of the great adventurers of the Victorian era, and a spy. But several weeks just before the Civil War are curiously missing from his life's account.

CHRISTOPHER DICKEY

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-a-british-spy-drank-his-way-across-the-americasand-missed-the-civil-war

For more stories from the last several months, several of them written with colleagues, visit:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/christopher-dickey