Goodheart has a bachelor's degree from Harvard University. On the morning of April 12, 1861, the newly formed Confederate States Army opened fire on the federal garrison of Fort Sumter in the harbor of Charleston, S.C. Goodheart, a historian and journalist who will be writing a column on the Civil War for the New. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College. Adam Goodheart, Knopf, 28.95 (496p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4015-5. He was one of the founders and senior editors of the magazine of the Library of Congress, Civilization. He is known for his book on the social history of the early days of the American Civil War: 1861: The Civil War Awakening, and for his essays in publications such as The Atlantic, The New York Times, and National Geographic. Goodheart is an American historian, essayist and author. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Īdam K. In '1861' (28.95, Knopf Doubleday Publishing), Goodheart gives short shrift to skirmishes and instead conjures a remarkable cast of individual Americans - from slaves and foot soldiers to the. ( December 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by replacing them with more appropriate citations to reliable, independent, third-party sources. This article may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject, potentially preventing the article from being verifiable and neutral.

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