American civil war
Homesick for Tennessee: The Newer World, by Sebastian Barry, reviewed
After many adventures touring with the Fisk Jubilee singers, the former slave Tennyson Bouguereau longs to return to his roots
No one should trust the camera in the age of AI
Bryan Appleyard on photographic manipulation, past and present
Emancipation man
Winslow Homer may be too all-American for British tastes but a forthcoming retrospective could change all that, says Laura Gascoigne
Why secession beckons
The craziness of our politics makes you wonder what’s round the bend. After the ‘resistance’, the pussy hats, the non-stop…
This charming man
Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled is set during the American Civil War and is about a wounded Union solider, Corporal John…
His soul goes marching on
James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird is set in the mid 19th century, and is based on the real life…
