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A Q&A with Cody Marrs, author of Not Even Past: The Stories We Keep Telling About the Civil War. What led you to write Not Even Past? A lot of it was just living and teaching in the South. The Civil War shades into almost everything here. It’s in the places...

I once heard historian Drew Gilpin Faust tell an audience at the National Humanities Center that at least one book about the Civil War had appeared for every day since Lee surrendered at Appomattox. That’s a major challenge for the historian who seeks to say...