1861: The Lost Peace. By Jay Winik. Grand Central Publishing. 304 pages. $35. More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with “April ...

There is always a certain peril in a prequel—especially a long-delayed one. Think James Fenimore Cooper, who published “The Deerslayer” 15 years after “The Last of the Mohicans” (1826), only to have ...

“I tend to sort of see things within snapshots in time,” Jay Winik told me recently. “In terms of narrative structure, it works well.” This Winik knows firsthand. A Yale-educated “public historian,” ...

Ted review's Jay Winik's book that details Lincoln's assassination and the events surrounding it. April 1865 was a month that could have unraveled the nation. Instead, it saved it. Ted reviews Jay ...

The 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 reconciliation was "more substantial than most subsequent ...

Jay Winik's new book, a bestseller, is April 1865: The Month That Saved America (HarperCollins). He writes that April 1865 is a month that could have unraveled the American nation. Instead it saved it ...

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On the C-SPAN Networks: Jay Winik is an Author with 15 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1996 Forum as . The year with the most videos was 2001 with four videos as a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

A revolt in an undeveloped colony on the fringe of civilization, led by a big landowner and slaveholder with little education or military experience, is brought to success with help from France in its ...

More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with “April 1865: The Month That Saved America." His latest book covers the period of time ...

More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with “April 1865: The Month That Saved America.” His latest book covers the period of time ...