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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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 ...

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.

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.

This week on The Civil War, two historians discuss the wartime leadership styles of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. This is the first in a series of sessions we'll air over the next few weeks ...

Lot 308 is a mortgage deed dated December 20, 1957 co-signed by Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe and her then-husband, the playwright Arthur Mille ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three weeks later, Abraham Lincoln did likewise, to much different results. On this day in 1861, former U.S. Senator Jefferson Davis took to a podium for his presidential inauguration and gave an ...

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 ...