The story of the American Civil War is essentially one of human beings––Northerners, Southerners, Blacks, Whites, men, women–– holding themselves accountable for the future of a nation.

To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.

I’m American. Like I told you. And I’m American and not something else because they failed that day. They couldn’t do it and most of them probably knew they couldn’t do it before they even...

With the music of our singing in the background, I looked at the church candles and thought about the surreal connection between images and memory. The peaceful and joyous candles flickering there during the Christmas...

This isn’t to deny that there were fierce arguments, at the time and ever since, about the causes and goals of both the Civil War and the Second World War. But 1861 and 1941 each...

Today’s breakfast consist of rice and a piece of bread fried in a bit of salt pork grease. At least I have my memories of grand banquets and fine foods, but this is all the...

All the talk about civil war is meaningless. We live in a homogenous society despite everything that’s being said and done. When I take a seat in the service taxi that brings me here from...

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 took his bar exam in 1989, I may never know. Perhaps...

What I wanted was to get away. But the moon was too far beyond, and there were white bits under me, where the flesh was shredded off and the bone gleamed that famed ivory, and...

The Captain, so close as he was, didn’t warrant their attention. Even a fly on a horse’s hindquarters gets a tail whip. And that is the thick of it. We are less than flies to...

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

For twenty-five years I’ve been speaking and writing in defense of your right to happiness in this world, condemning your inability to take what is your due, to secure what you won in bloody battles...

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 ethnic cuisine; your diaspora , from what I understand, is mostly...

Rebel Number Four” is waiting patiently by the door. I named him “Rebel Number Four,” for he is the fourth of his kind I have given the name “Rebel.” To many he may be just...

I haven’t seen anything on this scale in Beirut since the dark days of the civil war,

I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.

poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you

Some people tried to hurt us to protect themselves, their family and communities…This was one of the consequences of civil war. People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy. Even people who...

hic sacra domus carique penates, hic mihi Roma fuit.

Things are getting better. The Iraqis came to the brink of civil war as a result of the attack on the shrine … The Iraqi leadership came together and rose to the occasion and that’s...

The war had been a daily thought, a continual consciousness in her life for two years, but never a real presence. Battles were things that were fought somewhere else, won somehow, by someone, and lost...

I stop to brace myself against the walls, which are painted with the fingerprints of family.

1. Bangladesh…. In 1971 … Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civilian massacre policy in East Bengal and their armed attack on India from West Pakistan…. This...

Guess that’s thirty-one pieces of silver you’ve got now, huh? Sleep well, Judas.

It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws.

Was I altering the ‘space-time continuum’ or whatever they called it in time travel movies, just by existing right now? Perhaps I’d accidentally kill a mosquito that might have given some famous person a disease...

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others. But for the Civil War, Lincoln and Grant and Sherman and Sheridan would not have been discovered, nor have risen into...

Now, your Honor, I have spoken about the [Civil] war. I believed in it. I don’t know whether I was crazy or not. Sometimes I think perhaps I was. I approved of it; I joined...

The curtains were not yet drawn and with the moonlight spreading across the room, I could see clearly. I undressed and slipped a soft cotton gown over my naked body. I pulled the blanket off...

Richmond’s newspaper questioned how a senior general could not even get two of his own generals to cooperate with him. They nicknamed him “Granny” Lee or “The King Of Spades,” because he insisted that his...

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

There are certain men who are sacrosanct in history; you touch on the truth of them at your peril. These are such men as Socrates and Plato, Pericles and Alexander, Caesar and Augustus, Marcus Aurelius...

History doesn’t move you more than when it’s in the iron of your own blood.

Chamberlain raised his saber, let loose the shout that was the greatest sound he could make, boiling the yell up from his chest: Fix bayonets! Charge! Fix bayonets! Charge! Fix bayonets! Charge! He leaped down...

In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through...

We struggle for freedom every day of our lives. From our founding fathers to the Civil War through the suffrage movement, the American civil rights movement and today with the Patriot Act. Frankly, it’s a...

It was not an unusual site to see Negro tenant farmers crossing the intersection of Spring and Barbrick on the way to the cotton warehouse

Anyone who studies the history of American commerce or warfare should be interested in Burning Springs, nicknamed “Oiltown.” This was the site of the first oil well in West Virginia, drilled in 1860, just one...

And when there is the possibility of peace, a new fight erupts, based on an old complaint, and which some people call justice adn others madness.

Is life less thrilling if your neighbors are rational, if they don’t bomb your power stations whenever they feel you need to be admonished? Is it less rousing if they don’t rattle your windows and...

Can America get back to a point where politicians are honest? Not unless that point is the tip of a sword.

If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as foreigner; there were only free men and...

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as...

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.

‎”He smiled at me and I felt the tenderness only a daughter could feel.

War has been glorified by men who have never been shot at.

He wasn’t sure why he felt so compelled to follow the singing, or why he needed to bring the foot with him, but he knew the two phenomena were connected. And in the midst of...

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,While follow eyes the steady...

How a member of the church—one who had read the Good Lord’s bible—could sit so calmly and watch a man be led to his destruction frightened me.

Preguntaréis por qué su poesía no nos habla del sueño, de las hojas, de los grandes volcanes de su país natal? Venid a ver la sangre por las calles,venid a ver la sangre por las...