Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Shiloh had as many casualties as Waterloo, and yet there were another 20 Waterloos to come. — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
The very same British and American families who had combined to wreck the Indian textile industry in the promotion of the opium… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
He walked with long, ungraceful strides, enormous feet adding to the spectacle, and he sat a horse as if leaning into a… — James I. Robertson, Jr Copy Share Image
“the long roll called William Wofford’s Georgia brigade to fall in for duty. Orders were issued to fill haversacks with snowballs and… — Stephen W. Sears Copy Share Image
“The end of the war was like the beginning, with the army marching down the open road under the spring sky, seeing… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
“Captain Werner Von Bachelle of the 6th Wisconsin in General John Gibbon’s Iron Brigade, who died on the Hagerstown Pike with his… — Carol Reardon Copy Share Image
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“An elderly black man stepped forward and prayed aloud for Lincoln’s safety. Much to Coffin’s surprise, the President “lifted his own hat… — Noah Andre Trudeau Copy Share Image
“Farewell, we must part; we have turned from the land Of our cold-hearted brother, with tyrannous hand, Who assumed all our rights… — Frank Moore Copy Share Image
“For twenty-five years I've been speaking and writing in defense of your right to happiness in this world, condemning your inability to… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The pageant has passed. That day is over. But we linger, loath to think we shall see them no more together -… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“If things keep going the way they have in recent years, acrimonious historical debate may soon rival kudzu for prominence on the… — Charles B. Dew Copy Share Image
People here are quite struck aback at Sunday's news of the capture of New Orleans. It took them three days to make… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“Criticism of Davis was neither new nor unusual, for his Confederacy was by no means a monolithic state. Secession had been imposed… — Burke Davis Copy Share Image
“Hong’s message fired the imagination of millions of desperate Chinese, who were shaken by China’s defeats in the Opium Wars and by… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning.… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
