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...silks and velvets to mark the socially-required mourning that could last up to two and a half years. At one store in Philadelphia women could purchase black fabrics of every design in July 1863—which was, Faust devilishly adds, “just in time for Gettysburg.” It takes great talent to make a reader laugh while writing about the Civil War. No one, even the fashionable lady mourner, is exempt from Faust’s wit. Everyone’s story—whether they’re a private or a general...
...branch of government to which he belongs. The President then commutes the sentence of a convicted felon who just happens to be the Vice President's former chief of staff. It is stunning to me that almost 144 years later, the words uttered by Abraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address have been trampled and disregarded so callously by the four branches (now including Cheney's hybrid branch) of our government. Indeed, it would appear that government of the people, by the people and for the people has now perished, if not from this earth, at least from the U.S. Rodney...
...good old days. Sure enough, one of the hot books of the summer is a zestfully nostalgic celebration of boyhood past. The Dangerous Book for Boys, by brothers Hal and Conn Iggulden, flits from fossils to tree houses, from secret codes to go-carts, from the Battle of Gettysburg to the last voyage of Robert Falcon Scott. A sensation last year in Britain, the book has been at or near the top of the New York Times best-seller list since late spring...
...announcement’s crescendo even called for “a new birth of freedom,” borrowing verbatim from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Calling for national unity, Lincoln said in 1858, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” “Divided, we are bound to fail,” would-be President Obama said, on the same note, 149 years later...
...GETTYSBURG, Pa.—The lights on the map flashed and darkened. A line of blue dots formed a fishhook curve as the red lights advanced. I was sitting in a darkened room as the battle played out in front of me. “In what many historians regard as the bloodiest fighting of the entire war…” a recorded narrator intoned. We watched the red lights blink towards the blue lights, hover, and fall back. Three days. And 50,000 casualties.The blonde woman in front of me shook her head. The narrator moved...