News, New Music, Exclusive When you write a concept album based on the Civil War as Titus Andronicus mastermind Patrick Stickles has done with 'The Monitor,' his band's recently-released sophomore album, you're bound to...

Debby Applegate The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher (Three Leaves, 2007). Anne J. Bailey, Invisible Southerners: Ethnicity in the Civil War (University of Georgia Press, 2006). George C. Bradley and R...

Here's one of the only economic charts that really matters: Total U.S. debt to GDP (from John Mauldin). This chart shows the trend from the end of the Civil War until now.  Note two things: There may be a general upward trend, but...

Here's one of the only economic charts that really matters: Total U.S. debt to GDP (from John Mauldin). This chart shows the trend from the end of the Civil War until now.  Note two things: There may be a general upward trend, but...

Photo by Emily Degroot Previously, we reported that Yeasayer and the Polyphonic Spree will voyage to Gulu, Uganda later in the year to perform live in various locations and learn about the effects of the Ugandan civil war. The trip'...

Modern indie rock generally treats emotion as something that should be guarded or disguised. The Monitor does not subscribe to this viewpoint. Loosely based on the U.S. Civil War, it may be one of the most absurd album concepts e...

The house that gave rise to 'Empire of the Sun' survived invasion, civil war, and decades of Chinese Communism. It has finally succumbed to Chinese prosperity. ...

This Civil War interview with a Transformers: War for Cybertron is much, much more: it gives us an excellent overview of the gameplay premise and much appreciated lip-service to fans. Link: http://www.theawesomer.com/c/click.php?id...

Cybertron isn't just the homeworld of the Transformers... it is a Transformer itself. It was the first Transformer. In War for Cybertron you get to explore the Civil War between the Autobots and the Decepticons a...

Cybertron isn't just the homeworld of the Transformers... it is a Transformer itself. It was the first Transformer. In War for Cybertron you get to explore the Civil War between the Autobots and the Decepticons a...

I was trying to remember the best class from my long stretch in school.Was it the History of the American Civil War in which Professor Beatson wound up the course by reading Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address and then, overcome by e...

Kos is threatening Dennis Kucinich, of all people, with a primary if he doesn't vote for health care "reform". Let me get this straight, Kos...

Last week I got to talk to Mark Millar on the phone. Even if you haven't heard of Millar -- which you probably have -- you know his work. He did major work on X-Men and Captain America. He did Marvel's Civil War. He did Wanted. He d...

Yesterday was a whirlwind of a day in Sharpsburg, Maryland and Shepherdstown, West Virginia.  The reason for my visit was a chance to spend time with the students in Prof. Mark Snell’s course on the Civil War and memory.  I spent a ...

Wait, that's not right. It's Markos Moulitsas threatening to support a primary challenge against...Dennis Kucinich because Kucinich won't support ObamaCare. Yes, it's Larry O'Donnell talking to Kos on Countdown but it's worth watchi...

This post on the background to Greece’s economic problems from the Economist’s Charlemagne is both very interesting and surprisingly non-Economisty. The Greek civil war, and the bloody score-settling that followed, is a living memo...

Powerhouse educational institution P.S. 234 in Tribeca is no stranger to real estate-related hubbub, having already set off a near civil war between affordable and market-rate residents of 101 Warren Street. Now there's a new contro...

I hope that all of you have had a chance to read my article on Confederate military executions in the current issue of Civil War Times.  It should be on the newsstands for a few more weeks, but you can also read it online.  I’ve bee...

TMZ Sports, Ben Roethlisberger Ben Roethlisberger is still not out of the woods in his other sexual assault battle -- the civil lawsuit filed against him by a woman in Nevada is very much alive.TMZ spoke to the lawyer f...

As many of you know Gettysburg College is in the process of hiring a new Director for its Civil War Institute.  The previous director was Lincoln scholar Gabor Boritt who retired in the summer of 2009.  It goes without saying that t...