Adam GoodheartAdam Goodheart is a historian, essayist, journalist, and bestselling author of 1861: The Civil War Awakening. His articles have appeared in the Atlantic, the New York Times, National Geographic, and the American Scholar. Goodheart is the director of ashington College's Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience. He lives in Washington, D.C., and on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Read More Read Less