Michael Bernath

<i>The First Cotton-gin, </i>by William L. Sheppard, published in<i> Harper’s,</i> December 18, 1869, shows slaves at work—and masters who profited from their labor.

Montage | September-October 2013

Harvard's Walter Johnson on the slave South

The capitalist economy and dark dreams of the slaveholding South

The entry of Major Anderson’s command into Fort Sumter, as depicted in <i>Harper’s Weekly</i>

Montage | March-April 2011

Michael Bernath reviews Adam Goodheart's book "1861: The Civil War Awakening"

At its sesquicentennial, a fresh, revealing narrative of the advent of the Civil War