Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America..

A singular fact about modern war is that it takes charge. Once begun it has to be carried to its conclusion, and carrying it there sets in motion eve….

What a general could do, Thomas did; no more dependable soldier for a moment of crisis existed on the North American continent, or ever did exist... ….

Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings..

Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery..

Men see things late, and it may be that at times an evil fate drives them on..

I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a ….

Like most Rebel soldiers, Sam Watkins owned no slaves..

The 1860 election became a referendum on the southern way of life..

The Confederate Constitution was almost identical to that of the United States..

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be ….

Early youth is a baffling time.

It began with one act of madness, and it ended with another. John Brown heard history's clock strike in the night and tried to hurry dawn along with ….

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to….

In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that y….

Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow ….

Soldiers who had been in the army long enough to know what a bloody swindle war really is would begin to feel that army life was really kind of fun, ….

What began as a bitter dispute over Union and States' Rights, ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in America. At Gettysburg in 1863, Abra….

Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning. It came out of wh….

The enduring realization that when a great challenge comes, the most ordinary people can show that they value something more than they value their ow….

The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interes….