“Our national problem has not been ignoring the Civil War, but turning it into a kind of theme park in which nostalgia and mendacity have eclipsed the raw and unpleasant truth that one army fought, and lost, a battle for the liberty to enslave other human beings, while the other, full of imperfect men fighting for a variety of motives, secured the emancipation of those human beings and thereby preserved a political experiment underwritten by the idea of equality.” Civil War History Book:Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness Source: Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness