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Gil Hahn is an attorney and historian who grew up in Washington, DC, near Battery Kemble, one of the ring of forts defending the Federal capital, and also within easy touring range of many Civil War battlefields in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.

He works part time at the Hagley Museum in Wilmington, Delaware, which preserves the original DuPont gunpowder factory, and where he demonstrates and explains the operation of nineteenth century industrial equipment, including the steam engine.

Mr. Hahn was educated at Dartmouth College, Vanderbilt Law School, and Columbia Business School. He has been employed as a lawyer in various capacities, and in various jurisdictions, since 1978. He has an abiding interest in American History, Military Hi ...more

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Gil Hahn I am working on a book about the naval blockade of the Confederate coast during the Civil War. The same book about the war on the coastal waters has b…moreI am working on a book about the naval blockade of the Confederate coast during the Civil War. The same book about the war on the coastal waters has been written many time, but no one has explored the tactics and logistics of the blockade or the international issues that arose as a facet of understanding the blockade.(less)

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Gil Hahn I became interested in the resources that the Federals and the Confederates had available to them at the start of the Civil War. That blossomed into a…moreI became interested in the resources that the Federals and the Confederates had available to them at the start of the Civil War. That blossomed into a fuller exploration of what the nation was like -- what people thought about, and did in their daily lives. The ultimate question is why the secession movement exploded the way that it did.(less)

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“Don’t judge a book by its cover” may have been good advice when books were leatherbound or clothbound, but the printed dust jacket and the glossy covers of paperbacks with bold graphics and alluring titles made the cover a principal means of attracting a reader to a book. Still, there remain some communities that continue to judge the value of books—and, in particular