The Boston Way: Radicals Against Slavery and the Civil War (KURLANSKY/CH) cavalry and the causes and effects

and the causes and effects of the American Civil War

and his leadership during the Civil War

of one man's will to turn the nation's face toward freedom -- all these passionate events come alive in a powerful and moving narrative of Lincoln's

Most visitors today are familiar with the fighting on Little Round Top through Michael Shaara’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1974 novel The Killer Angels

The Artillery of Gettysburg"" is a thoughtful look at the role of the artillery during the July 1

The Boston Way: Radicals Against Slavery and the Civil War (KURLANSKY/CH) cavalry and the causes and effectsHas there ever been good violence or a good war? The American Civil War is likely considered to be so since there seemed to be no alternative. Or was there? Before the war, Bostonian abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison correctly predicted that fighting would not bring about real freedom and justice. If emancipation came about through violence, he believed, it would take at least a century for Black people to get their rights. As we now know, it has