When words broke bones: A review of The Civil War: A Book of Quotations
“Death and life are in the power of the tongue,” an ancient writer tells us. In a sense, words inflamed the country and, in 1861, flared up into Civil War.…
“Death and life are in the power of the tongue,” an ancient writer tells us. In a sense, words inflamed the country and, in 1861, flared up into Civil War.…
On their wedding day, Nancy and John Shipley had great hopes and dreams. They married amidst the gloomy financial Panic of 1857. Twenty-five-year-old John and 19-year-old Nancy thought the best…