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Making Sense of Robert E. Lee

“It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.”— Robert E. Lee, at Fredericksburg

by Roy Blount Jr. via Smithsonian on July 1, 2003

Caricature of Christopher Columbus

The Lost Mariner

The self-confidence that kept Columbus going was his undoing.

by Elizabeth Kolbert via The New Yorker on October 6, 2002

A person at a rally

An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis

Since we live in an age in which silence is not only criminal but suicidal, I have been making as much noise as I can.

by James Baldwin via New York Review of Books on January 7, 1971

John Brown

Three Interviews With Old John Brown

Atlantic writer William Phillips conducted three interviews with Brown before Brown's fateful raid on Harper's Ferry.

by William A. Phillips via The Atlantic on November 30, 1879

A painting of the physician Iapyx removing an arrowhead from the hero Aeneas.

Two Generals Contest the Definition of Cruelty

Hood and Sherman exchange epistolary fire in 1864.

by William Tecumseh Sherman, John B. Hood via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 14, 1864

A North Carolinian on the Aftermath of Nat Turner’s Rebellion

A spotlight on a primary source.

via Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History on September 25, 1831

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