Articles in this Issue
Before Left Behind
It’s not easy to say something new about the end of the world
Stranger in a Strange Land
Remembering Carol Thiessen
The Groves of Academe
The Dissenters Club
Getting Older Younger
Marketing to teens and tweens
The Movies Go to War
The moral messages and political overtones of war films
A Journalist in Babylon
The need for a critical mass in the Fourth Estate
Impersonations
The restless journey of a Holocaust descendant
Defenders of the Faith
Looking for fissures in establishment atheist philosophy
Thomas the Unbeliever
A new doubting Thomas finds few answers
Mercy
A murderous saint’s life
The Cossacks’ Iliad
Gogol and the making of Russian literature
Free to Do What?
Emancipation reconsidered
Original Sin
Slavery and the biblical curse of Ham.
Planet Dixie
Land of happy slaves and gracious masters.
Still Writing the Civil War
Do we know this country too well?
Going Back to Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The book that started the Civil War.
Changing the Script
A discovery that altered the course of the war
How the War Might Have Ended
A conversation with historian Jay Winik
The Wisest Radical of Them All
Two Views of Lincoln
When Thou Goest Out to Battle
The religious world of Civil War soldiers
Getting It Half-Right
What’s worth celebrating in Gods and Generals—and what’s not
Baptism in Blood
The Civil War and the creation of an American civil religion