After a siege of 293 days, Grant forced the Confederates…

“Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has…

— Ken Kesey

“Whatever happened in those more than one hundred years, from the time my great-great-great grandfather studied law to the time when my own father…

— Gwenn Wright

“AUSTRALIA, LIKE THE UNITED STATES, experienced a different path to inclusive institutions than the one taken by England. The same revolutions that shook England…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“These are all good things, I said. But no one knows where your country is or who you are. You don't have a familiar…

— Gary Shteyngart

“Thinking about the weather was one way of shutting out of his mind the appalling bloody human mess sprawled out over the bed of…

— Mark Ellis

It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about $3,000 per man during the Napoleonic wars;…

— Homer Bone

Alabama soldiers, all I ask of you is to keep up with the Texans!

— Robert E. Lee

“ “In the South, football is confused with religion, chivalry, the Civil War, and women.” -Diane Roberts, The Quotable South ”

— Deborah Ford

“By the following morning, September 15, Jackson had positioned nearly fifty guns on Maryland Heights and at the base of Loudoun Heights.  Then he…

— Charles River Editors

Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.

— Walt Whitman

You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do…

— Robert E. Lee

“Civil wars...are the best wars for the writer...because they have a way of continuing long afterwl wars between nations are resolved; because, with the…

— Ralph Ellison

I am out of money,we are all out of money,but we dont need money down here- Dont need anything but Men , Muskets, Ammunition,…

— James A. Connolly

Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from…

— Jim Webb

“Only twenty - nine years in the entire human history had been without warfare, and now here he was too, travelling between the episodes…

— Nadeem Aslam