This week on The Civil War, a discussion about Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis as opposing commanders-in-chief. Historians Harold Holzer, James McPherson, and William Davis talk about how and ...

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Focusing on the first two years of the Civil War in “Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents,” Nigel Hamilton alternates between the two men in assessing their actions as commanders in chief.

On this day in 1861, former U.S. Senator Jefferson Davis took to a podium for his presidential inaugural and gave an impassioned speech about the Constitution. Three weeks later, Abraham Lincoln ...

Abraham Lincoln, at Antietam in 1862 with security guard Allan Pinkerton (left) and Maj. Gen. John McClernand, has far less military experience than Jefferson Davis, having served only as a ...

Focusing on the first two years of the Civil War in “Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents,” Nigel Hamilton alternates between the two men in assessing their actions as commanders in chief.

Jefferson Davis, Mr. Hamilton argues, was much better prepared for wartime leadership than Abraham Lincoln, and up through ...

In this ingenious account, biographer Hamilton (War and Peace) surveys “the warring minds and hearts” of Abraham Lincoln and Confederate commander-in-chief Jefferson Davis during the first two ...

Davis’s pro-slavery remarks provide Noah Feldman with both the epigraph and the title of his new book about Jefferson Davis’s nemesis, Abraham Lincoln, which seems a very odd choice.

Jefferson Davis, Mr. Hamilton argues, was much better prepared for wartime leadership than Abraham Lincoln, and up through his decision to allow Robert E. Lee to invade the North in what became ...