A documentary titled “Death and the Civil War,” prominently featuring Yale historian David Blight, will air on PBS on Sept. 18, at 8 pm. Based on Drew Gilpin Faust’s acclaimed book “This Republic of ...

Out of guilt or amnesia, we tend to treat wars, in retrospect, as natural disasters: terrible but somehow inevitable, beyond anyone’s control. Shaking your fist at the fools who started the First ...

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The answer is no. These Critical Questions use core findings from the academic literature on civil wars and political violence to situate recent tragic events and fundamentally challenge the notion ...