Puzzling out the meaning of the Civil War and its aftermath has been David Blight’s lifelong work ...
Martha Hodes
Martha Hodes is a professor of history at New York University and the author, most recently, of the award-winning Mourning Lincoln (Yale University Press, 2015). She is currently a Guggenheim fellow and a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. 
