Drew Gilpin Faust's books include This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War.
From her Q & A with Randy Dotinga at the Christian Science Monitor:
Q: How did the death toll of the Civil War – an estimated 620,000 soldiers and 50,000 civilians and perhaps even more, according to a new estimate – change us as a nation?
A: We learned about our obligations to the dead. If we are to
Saturday, 22 September 2012
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