David Blight talks about the carnage of the Civil War and how both sides tried to get back the bodies of their fallen soldiers to bury and memorialize.

Carl Van Vechten, a best-selling novelist, archivist, photographer, and negrophile promoted black culture during the era known as the Harlem Renaissance, and beyond. The Harlem Renaissance was a black movement, but it needed whiteness in order to thrive. Carl Van Vechten embodied that necessary...