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General Henry Wager Halleck’s Half-Hearted War

By Donald Stoker
One of the many things distinguishing my book from the other 60,000 volumes on the U.S. Civil War is its focus on strategic decisions and their effects.
For example, when Abraham Lincoln removed George B. McClellan from his post as general in chief in March 1862, Lincoln reorganized the Union’s departmental structures and placed [...]

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The New Realism: Pompeii’s Living Dead

By Eugene Dwyer
Plaster casts of the Pompeian victims, first made by Giuseppe Fiorelli in 1863, have become world famous through post cards, documentary films, and now traveling exhibitions.
Direct exposure to the casts, whether one experiences them in Pompeii or in a museum setting, can be very moving or it can be unaffecting, depending upon the [...]

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