Pvt. Lucien Weakley’s weathered headstone stands beneath a towering magnolia tree that is surrounded by the graves of thousands of other Confederate soldiers in Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery.

Hess has produced once again an excellent history of a Civil War battle ... or turning point of the Atlanta Campaign is incorrect. Besides his usual tour-de-force of the battle narrative, Hess devotes ...

this new play explores the women behind the 1881 Atlanta washerwomen strike, one of the largest, successful interracial, organized labor strikes of the post-Civil War era. “The Wash” was ...