Word: civilizations
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Every American citizen must understand the Civil War. Unless he does, the country as it is today, is unintelligible to him, and the men, the battles, and the issues of fifty years ago mean nothing more than names to him. At Harvard there is no one course that presents an intelligent, comprehensive and non-partisan view of the conflict, that induces a point of view which the Northerner and Southerner can hold together, that can inspire patriotism and at the same time not awaken partisan feeling. Without such a course an ignorance flourishes which not only shuts men from...
...worthless, for such a course would not be a mere history of campaigns, and even if it were the military interest would not be uppermost. As matters stand, there will be a distinct gap in the view that Harvard gives us of our past, until a course on the Civil War and Reconstruction is offered...
After graduation from College, Professor Gray entered the Harvard Law School, graduating in 1861. He was in the Civil War serving in many capacities, eventually as major and judge advocate of United States Volunteers on the staff of Generals Foster and Gillmore. In 1869, he became a lecturer in the Harvard Law School where he was made Storey Professor, of Law in 1875. In 1883 he was promoted to the Royal Professorship which has been associated with his name for nearly thirty years...
Thomas Wentworth Higginson was born in Cambridge in 1823. He graduated from College in 1841 and six years later from the Divinity School. At the outbreak of the Civil War he received a commission as captain in the 51st Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Militia; after three years of service he left the army with the rank of colonel. Colonel Higginson was always prominent in the field of literature, being the last survivor of the early American school of litterateurs of whom Wendell Phillips '31 and Theodore Parker '36 were such notable examples...
Booker T. Washington, widely known as an educator and one of the most enlightened of his race, was born in Virginia just before the Civil War. His ambition for knowledge led him to travel five hundred miles "by walking and begging rides both in wagons and in cars" to Hampton Institute from which he graduated in 1875, later becoming an instructor in the same institution. In 1881 he was called upon to organize and become the head of a negro normal school at Tuskegee, Alabama, for which the State legislature had made an annual appropriation. Opened in July...