The New York Times has been “live blogging plus 150 years” the events of the American Civil War. I have been impressed by the sheer quality of many of the posts to the Disunion blog. Some really distinguished academics have contributed to it.
I loved yesterday’s blog post because it set the Civil War in its international context. It was about the Republic of San Marino’s reaction to Lincoln’s inauguration. It is a great post because it connects and compares the story of Italian unification in the 1860s with the Civil War. The author of the post is Don H. Doyle, who teaches history at the University of South Carolina and a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center. He is the author of “Nations Divided: America, Italy, and the Southern Question” and is writing about a book about the international context of dimensions of the American Civil War.
Check out this lecture by Doyle.
The Past Speaks 