The Boston Way: Radicals Against Slavery and the Civil War (KURLANSKY/CH) knit Confederate soldiers lived and fought

Confederate soldiers lived and fought within military units where they experienced the traumatic strain of combat and its privations together--all the while being separated from suffering families

Along the Mississippi River and other inland waterways across the South

this engaging travelogue details Lincoln’s twelve-day trip through Massachusetts as a young

historian David Alan Johnson brings to life the president's daily routine

but instead came on October 16

The Boston Way: Radicals Against Slavery and the Civil War (KURLANSKY/CH) knit Confederate soldiers lived and foughtHas there ever been good violence or a good war? The American Civil War is likely considered to be so since there seemed to be no alternative. Or was there? Before the war, Bostonian abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison correctly predicted that fighting would not bring about real freedom and justice. If emancipation came about through violence, he believed, it would take at least a century for Black people to get their rights. As we now know, it has