“Isana stared at Gaius for a moment. Then she said, "How can you live with yourself?" The First Lord stared at her… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The Union, which can alone insure internal peace, and external security to each State, Must and Shall be Preserved, cost what it… — George B. McClellan Copy Share Image
There has always been interest in certain phases and aspects of history - military history is a perennial bestseller, the Civil War,… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“As one of the leading French anarchist thinkers and friend of Bakunin, Élisée Reclus, put it: “The external form of society must… — Bernard Schweizer Copy Share Image
“The Civil War was pre-eminently a political war, a war of peoples rather than of professional armies.” — James M. McPherson Copy Share Image
“Louisa went about her duties at the hospital, trying not to dwell on the fact that this might be her last day… — David Healey Copy Share Image
“A blanket could be used to foil slave traders. But so could tinfoil and leftover meatloaf. Geez, the whole Civil War could… — Jarod Kintz 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
“While adoration periodically crept into the relationships between slaves and overseers, their most unsavory interactions provided the inexplicable narrative for a dark… — Trevor P. Wardlaw Copy Share Image
Every movie, I complicate. I make the hard choices. I remember when I was pitching 'Pan's Labyrinth:' An anti-fascist fairy tale set… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
There were 315,000 slave owners in the Union Army (with 200,000 in the Confederate Army) and the men who walked away from… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
In order to save the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, our colonial statesmen must acquire… — Cecil Rhodes Copy Share Image
I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
“Since Ulysses S. Grant’s spelling could border on the eccentric, I have taken the liberty of correcting that and his punctuation and… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go back, but I… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I know I'm going back some decades, but I'll never forget the discomfort of being one of the few Black kids in… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
“[My grandfather] returned to what he called ‘studying.’ He sat looking down at his lap, his left hand idle on the chair… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Little did I conceive of the greatness of the defeat (at Bull Run), the magnitude of the disaster which it had entailed… — William Howard Russell Copy Share Image
“If the Assad regime in Syria were to fall, the likeliest outcome would be a prolonged and bloody civil war. The last… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth. — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
The edge of the conflict swayed to and fro, with wild whirlpools and eddies. At times I saw around me more of… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
