Welles, Kozintsev, Kurosawa, Zeffirelli: Great Shakespeareans

A study of four major Shakespearean filmmakers

A Slaveholders' Republic in the Tumult of War

Review essay of recent work on wartime disaffection in the southern Confederacy: Stephanie McCurry's award-winning _Confederate Reckoning_ and Victorian Bynum's _Long Shadow of the Civil War_. Includes a broader assessment of recent historiography, state of the field.