During the Civil War, the Underground Railroad became a spy network, so we could still have fresh stories for these characters years… — Misha Green Copy Share Image
“There is such a weight of history behind this that it makes Valerio feel weak. He has never experienced anything of the… — Sahar Delijani Copy Share Image
For a mile up and down the open fields before us the splendid lines of the veterans of the Army of Northern… — Rufus Dawes Copy Share Image
Secularists argue that differences of religion were the chief cause of violence in our history - conveniently overlooking violent clashes of region,… — Stephen V Monsma Copy Share Image
Here Sunday, April, 9th, 1865, after four years of heroic struggle in defense of the principals believed to be fundamental to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I know this because the worst has happened. The thing I can’t live with… has happened. And for all our back and… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
I left my home, and it was the most beautiful country in the world in my eyes, and I was always happy… — Vlade Divac Copy Share Image
“A young women asked Lee what he would do. Lee replied, "I shall welcome him into my home, show him all the… — Clint Johnson Copy Share Image
“When it comes to the Civil War, all of our popular understanding, our popular history and culture, our great films, the subtext… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“In writing this, I am not being political, but am rather pointing out the deeply divided condition of the nation. Divisions range… — R. Loren Sandford Copy Share Image
“When I read a book, I try my best, not always successfully, to let the wall crumble just a bit, the barricade… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“...but in 1917 we had no cares except the mundane ones of starvation and occupation and civil war, and for those of… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“What we did in that momentous year of 1558 caused political strife, revolt, civil war, and invasion. There were times, in later… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“I have known many true connoisseurs, with excellent tastes that range across the humanities and the culinary arts--and they never fail to… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives you… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain… — William Petty Copy Share Image
Southern politicians who have tried to rise above the passionate rhetoric surrounding the Civil War have frequently found themselves dragged back into… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
One of the things that most people aren't aware of when they think of the Civil War is the number of people… — Gary Miller Copy Share Image
Cape Cod baseball dates back to the time of the Civil War. A poster at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown touts… — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
There is very little moral mixture in the 'Antislavery' feeling of this country. A great deal is abstract philanthropy; part is hatred… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
I tell our sisters in the South that so far as Tennessee is concerned she will not be dragged into a Southern… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“These statues are not just stone and metal. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments purposefully celebrate… — Mitch Landrieu Copy Share Image
I would agree that much with people who accept private property - that conscription is an unpardonable transgression, whether it be "corrupt"… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy… — Gianni Agnelli Copy Share Image
After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted… — Niger Innis Copy Share Image
In every aspect and among almost every demographic, how American society digested and processed the long, dark chapter between the end of… — Douglas A. Blackmon Copy Share Image
“While recruiting, Lieutenant Grace was often insulted by such remarks as, "There goes the captain of the Negro Company! He thinks the… — Luis Fenollosa Emilio Copy Share Image
“Quite often, people inaccurately comment about the villains of the South and the heroes of the North. Such statements cause bitter debates.… — Trevor P. Wardlaw Copy Share Image
You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you… — Midge Ure Copy Share Image
“HON. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War, Washington. General Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia this afternoon on terms proposed by… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
But since the end of the 1970s, at the beginning of the revolution in Iran under Khomenei, we have experienced a politicization… — Alice Schwarzer Copy Share Image
When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold… — Rebecca Latimer Felton Copy Share Image
I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The script was always the most important thing to me and I loved the script. For one thing, I've always admired trees.… — Kim Novak Copy Share Image
In Sherman's famous march through Georgia, his soldiers left a swath of death and destruction, destroying crops, burning homes and killing civilians.… — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it,… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
