The Atlantic has published a special commemorative issue on the Civil War. The edition contains some 50 pieces of reporting, essays, poetry & fiction from the magazine’s archives, but also includes contemporary works, including one by President Obama. The issue covers the run up to the Civil War, the war itself & the aftermath, and some of the writers featured include Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe & Nathaniel Hawthorne. American History TV talked to The Atlantic’s editor, James Bennet, and deputy editor Scott Stossel, about the issue.