Andrew S. Ward

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Andrew S. Ward is the author of The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves, Our Bones are Scattered: The Cawnpore Massacres and The Indian Mutiny Of 1857, Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers, and The Blood Seed.
 
He is a former contributing editor to Atlantic Monthly, commentator for National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" and columnist for The Washington Post.

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What Happened At Fort Pillow? | August/September 2005
Trying to understand the Civil War’s ugliest incident Read >>
“With Mark Twain You Can Get Away With Murder” | August/September 2003
The man who has lived with him nearly as long as Samuel Clemens did tells why Twain still has the power to delight—and to disturb Read >>
They Brought The Jubilee | July/August 2000
How a small group of former slaves taught the world about black music, the promise of emancipation, and the meaning of the Civil War Read >>
Humorist | May/June 1999
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Little Big Man’s Man | May/June 1999
Thomas Berger, the author of a classic novel of the American West, speaks about its long-awaited sequel—and about what is to be learned in the challenging territory that lies between history and fiction Read >>
Seattle | April 1994
The strange saga of a town that bragged, burned, and bullied itself into existence—and then became one of the most civilized places on earth Read >>
The Little Bighorn | April 1992
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Haunted Home | July/august 1990
When the author moved into a 1905 house on an island near Seattle, he found himself sharing it with the uncommon people who had lived there before him Read >>
Our Misplaced President | June 1977
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