Episodic History: Ryan’s Picks “The United States Senate, A.D. 1850,” depicting Henry Clay introducing his proposal for the Compromise of 1850 upon the Senate floor. Wikimedia Commons. Post author By Ryan Nadeau Post date August 7, 2017
Towards a More Total War: ‘Gentlemanly Warfare’ and the Rise of the Nation-State An engraving of Sherman's March to the Sea, composed three years later in 1867 by Alexander Hay Ritchie Post author By Bryan Caswell Post date July 31, 2017
States’ Rights, the Slave Power Conspiracy, and the Causes of the Civil War Portrait of Anthony Burns, R. M. Edwards, 1855 Post author By Francis Butler Post date July 3, 2017
Grand Prize, or Honorable Mention? The Case of American Settler Empire Post author By Bryan Caswell Post date June 26, 2017
Size, or How You Rule It? Determining History’s Greatest Empire Post author By Bryan Caswell Post date June 19, 2017
Asking Questions: Society, Truth, and Trying to Understand it All A Continual Conundrum (via Wikimedia Commons) Post author By Ryan Nadeau Post date June 12, 2017
Testing Whether That Nation Can Long Endure: America as a Failed State during the Civil War? Post author By Francis Butler Post date June 5, 2017
Labeling the Past: Historians and the Assignment of LGBT Identities Post author By Heather Clancy Post date May 29, 2017
