“With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him ...

In The Demon of Unrest, author Erik Larson chronicles the five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and the start of the Civil War, drawing parallels to today's political climate.

The arrival of a new Erik Larson book is a genuine event, a feast of historical insight and narrative verve even when it focuses on a twice- or thrice-told tale. America’s secession winter, the period ...