John Matteson reviews two books about World War I: "The World Remade: America in World War I" and "The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End."

'Frederick Law Olmsted,' edited by Charles E. Beveridge

With the coming of April 2015 the sesquicentennial of the Civil War draws to a close giving ample cause to look back on one of the most cataclysmic months in the nation rsquo s history It is now hard to imagine the surge of contrasting emotions that Americans felt first on April 9 1865 when Ge

Bruce Levine’s study of Confederate society seeks to correct the errors of generations past.

John Matteson reviews "The Fate of the West" by Bill Emmott