“Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.” BelieveWarEndsI BelieveHistoryEventsTearsCivil WarShedAmerican Civil War Author:William Tecumseh Sherman
“A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.” SaidTwoWarStatesUnitedUnited StatesEventsMinesCivil War Author:Arthur Miller
“Why did John Wilkes Booth do it? In My Thoughts Be Bloody young historian Nora Titone is one of the few to have genuinely explored this question. In doing so, she has crafted a fascinating psychological drama about one of the central events of the Civil War: the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. This book promises to stimulate lively historical debate, and will be a treat for every Civil War buff who always pondered that haunting question, “what made him pull that trigger?” Bravo on a marvelous achievement.” MadeBookWarYoungEventsPromiseDramaAchievementTreatsHistoricalDebatePsychologicalCivil WarFascinatingHistorianBloodyMarvelousMy ThoughtsHauntingTriggersAbrahamLivelyAssassinationBravoJohn Wilkes Booth Author:Jay Winik
“Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate.” MayWarReasonEventsExampleCivil WarAffected1930sSpanish Civil War Book:The Chomsky Reader Source: The Chomsky Reader
“For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an iconic event. Downtown Beirut became a metaphor for so many things: man's inhumanity to man, what Charles Bukowski called "the impossibility of being human." It shaped our perceptions of war and human nature, just as Vietnam did for our parents. We used it to understand how the world works.” MenWorldHumansChildrenBookWarUsedParentGenerationsEventsHuman NaturePerceptionMetaphorCivil WarVietnamBeing HumanImpossibilityMy GenerationIconicDowntownInhumanityBeirutLebaneseInhumanity To Man Author:Annia Ciezadlo