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.

I couldn’t figure out if it was fate or faith that had brought me there. How funny those two words sounded when paired together. One was the inevitable, something I could not change in my...

She turned her painted blue eyes toward the assistant and said something in French before she left.

THE FIGHTING IN THE PEACH ORCHARD AT GETTYSBURGPROLOGUE”The same young men who crowded each other as they faced the recruiters’ tables now crowded each other as they died.

Are you a communist?””No I am an anti-fascist””For a long time?””Since I have understood fascism.

But if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would, indeed be a civil war of the worst description: we should rather, through the instrumentality of the...

Serikali inayodhulumu wananchi wake ni hatari kuliko simba.

Did you know say the true cause of the Civil War was some Northerner adding nutmeg to a mint julep?” Lucy asked.

If they can over come, so will I!” When you know the ghosts that stand in support of you, you can begin to see life as they did—a life of joy, possibilities and freedom.

The evening was a string of miserable minutes strung together in tiny clusters. Three minutes for a man shot through the shoulder; Ellis put first a finger in the entry wound and then another in...

Like the magnolia tree, She bends with the wind,Trials and tribulation may weather her, Yet, after the storm her beauty blooms, See her standing there, like steel, With her roots forever buried,Deep in her Southern...

JAKE BAKER JOINING THE UNION ARMY IN NEW ORLEANS”I’d prefer to be back in Texas, taking aim at the Rebs…, but I just can’t do that,” said Jake. …”So, I’ll just do what I can...

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

The damn vermin are so numerous that I am afraid to sneeze, for fear the damned lice would regard it as gong for dinner, and eat me up – Robert Cobb Kennedy

I feel proud that I have been counted worthy to have blood shed by a traitor, and to suffer torture at the hands of those who have undertaken to trail our Flag in the dust....

We’re not weak. But I don’t want to be dragged into a civil war.

I mean, I don’t know much about the Civil War, but whenever I think of that time—I mean, ever since Gone With the Wind I’ve had these fantasies about those generals, those gorgeous young Southern...

I’m kilt, I’m kilt! Oh Gawd, I’m kilt!” Others lay limp, in shock. These last were mostly quiet, their color unnaturally pale. It was agonizingly humid in the still air of the yard. The stink...

Sea and land may lie between us, but my heart is always there with you.

No, I will not join your Civil War reenactment troupe.

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes.

Darks drifts covered the horizon. A strange shadow approaching nearer and nearer, was spreading little by little over men, over things, over ideas; a shadow which came from indignations and from systems. All that had...

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...