Tony Horwitz

Tony Horwitz is a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist who has written for The Wall Street Journal and The New Yorker. His books include Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War and Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War.

150 Years of Misunderstanding the Civil War

As the anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg approaches, it's time for America to question the popular account of a war that tore apart the nation.
- Tony Horwitz
- June 19, 2013
The Mammy Washington Almost Had

In 1923, the U.S. Senate approved a new monument in D.C. "in memory of the faithful slave mammies of the South."
- Tony Horwitz
- May 31, 2013
'Lincoln': Does Knowing the Ending Blur Our Understanding of the Story?

The seventh installment in our roundtable discussion of Steven Spielberg's film
- Tony Horwitz
- December 7, 2012
'Lincoln' Would Have Been Better if It Had Told More of Lincoln's Story

Tony Horwitz joins in for the fourth installment in our roundtable discussion of Steven Spielberg's film.
- Tony Horwitz
- December 5, 2012

Tony Horwitz

150 Years of Misunderstanding the Civil War

The Mammy Washington Almost Had

'Lincoln': Does Knowing the Ending Blur Our Understanding of the Story?

'Lincoln' Would Have Been Better if It Had Told More of Lincoln's Story