There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Jesse and Frank James were the most well-known military-trained gang members” — Carter F. Smith Copy Share Image
Like many people who live in the South, I'm drawn to the history of the Civil War. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“There never will be anything more interesting than that American Civil War.” — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“He smiled at me and I felt the tenderness only a daughter could feel.” — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“History doesn’t move you more than when it’s in the iron of your own blood.” — J.R. Tompkins Copy Share Image
On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of… — Patricia Cornwell 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
The words, gestures, and threats of our officers were thrown away upon men who had lost all presence of mind and only… — Andrew Potter Copy Share Image
The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth. — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
If Afghanistan slides back into chaos and civil war it will drag Pakistan down with it, with five times the population and… — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups. — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
“The Lebanese civil war was not between the Lebanese; it was a holy war declared on the Christians.” — Brigitte Gabriel 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“In early September, convinced that the best way to defend Richmond was to divert attention to Washington, Lee had decided to invade… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“….Nancy now gave herself to the wider problems surrounding friends and lovers, igniting her torches from theirs, yet following her own. One… — Iris Tree Copy Share Image
“For the first time in their memory, certainly since the earliest beginnings of the Civil War, Americans facing the shared tragedy of… — Candice Millard Copy Share Image
“Michael King was a young preacher with horn-rimmed glasses and a close-cropped beard and mustache. "The Bible says, if eating meat offends… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
“The mantle of a great power (was) inescapable. Was it better to extend diplomatic recognition to an unattractive regime and thereby hope… — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
“Inasmuch as he had relieved Johnston and appointed Hood, and Hood had immediately taken the initiative, it is natural to suppose that… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“Suppose a country starts its independence with the three economic characteristics that globally make a country prone to civil war: low income,… — Paul Collier Copy Share Image
However, the daily life of the slaves in the South, as observed by many travelers, was obscured for all time by the… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
