Negative Space: Civil War
- Behind the crime: Is it murder if they’re Yankees?
- Musings on writing the epic novel It Isn’t Murder If They’re Yankees, and its relation to current events in publishing, entertainment, and politics.
- The Civil War in Popular Culture
- Shelby Foote called the Civil War “The crossroads of our being” as Americans. Cullen writes that “officially, the Civil War ended in 1865, but culturally, it was just beginning.” The war’s meaning was at stake; if history can be said to be written by the victor, outside observers might find it hard to understand that the South lost the war.
- The Legend of the Nightriders
- Hundreds of people dead, and almost no records, in rural Louisiana following the Civil War. Truth? Legend? Or something in between? Jack Peebles takes newly-discovered newspaper articles and shows us the possibility of truth in old stories about the Harrisonburg Road.
