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Matrix are founded for backstory is provided by an anonymous donor, the National Dama

for the Humanities, and the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation.

From Virginia Humanities, this is backstory.

Welcome to backstory, the show that explains the history behind today's headlines.

I'm Joanne Freeman.

If you're new to the podcast, hello, each week, along with my colleagues Nathan Connelly,

Brian Ballot, and Ed Ayers, we explore a different part of American history.

Now over the years, tens of thousands of books have been published about the Civil War.

America's most divisive conflict might be its most written about.

No other moment in American history has captured public and scholarly attention, quite like

the battles that rage throughout the United States from 1861 to 1865.

With stacks and stacks and stacks of books about the Civil War, it can seem hard to know

what else there is to say.

But historians are coming up with new ways to look at that historic conflict all the time.

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