Civil war Quote by Jim Leach

Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep…

— Nick Turse

I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I was growing…

— Chris Abani

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

— Anson Mount

The American war of 1861-65 is recent enough to be embedded still in cultural memory.

— Amanda Foreman

I think young people don't really know that much about the Civil Rights Movement and about the history of African Americans in this country.…

— Don Lemon

There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was prior to…

— G. Edward Griffin

“We spend more per pupil than any other country, but among industrialized nations, American students rank near the bottom in science and math. Only…

— Glenn Beck

I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Even getting a college degree does not guarantee a minimal knowledge of U.S. history.

— Max Boot

They've been taught by too many that this war was necessary when it isn't.

— Ron Paul

Our Civil War history is important, but it belongs in textbooks and museums - not a place of allegiance on our Capitol grounds.

— Roy Cooper

People want to know why the South is so interested in the Civil War. I had maybe, it's a rough guess, about fifty fistfights…

— Shelby Foote