In 1861, Washington was like some third-world capitals today: an overgrown village in which the national government just happened to hold sway and a place where luxury hotels stood amid slums and open ...

The Lost Peace' by Jay Winik. T he most serious attempt to evade America's Civil War was probably doomed to fail, said Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker. But that effort at rec ...

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A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS. VOL. VII. — JANUARY, 1861.—NO. XXXIX. WASHINGTON is the paradise of paradoxes,— a city of magnificent distances, but of still more magnificent ...