France's involvement in the Civil War was a delicate issue for both the North and the South. From 1861 to 1865 the United States was in the midst of a deadly civil war without foreign involvement from other nations. Both sides sought the favor of much of Europe, but the actual involvemen...
A true newspaperman, he transformed the Washington Post into one of the country’s finest newspapers, and with him at the helm, a growing army of reporters published the Pentagon Papers, exposed Watergate, and told stories that needed to be told — stories that helped us understand our world...