Remembering the Civil War

Remembering the Civil WarIn the years following the American Civil War, many participants generals, politicians, journalists, and soldiers authored first hand accounts of their unique experiences. As Alfred E. Smith of the Library of Congress wrote in 1998, "No chapter of American history has been so voluminously recorded." While the quality and reliability of the memoirs varies, a large number provide important perspectives that, taken together, offer vivid descriptions of

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especially when it is discovered that the deceased

they paraded streets

and as a result she helped end public bus segregation and launch the country’s Civil Rights Movement

this volume brims with literary treasures

The voices of dissent left the churches and went into the streets

As you sit in pondering the big ideas of our time

Age Range: 12 and up

and brilliantly weaves them into one wickedly funny

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This Pulitzer Prize winning biography is one of the most deeply researched accounts of Douglass’ life