States’ Rights, the Slave Power Conspiracy, and the Causes of the Civil War

Grand Prize, or Honorable Mention? The Case of American Settler Empire

Size, or How You Rule It? Determining History’s Greatest Empire

Asking Questions: Society, Truth, and Trying to Understand it All

Greater than Its Parts: The Prospect of Global History

Testing Whether That Nation Can Long Endure: America as a Failed State during the Civil War?

Churchill Begins: Candice Millard’s Hero of the Empire

A Persistent Fiction: Myths of British Martial Prowess and Their Appeal

Holding the Moral High Ground: Reflections on Just War Then and Now