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01 / belief
“A lot of long books would make good short books, and a lot of short books would make good essays, I think.”
02 / belief
“The one place where the US ends up with an advantage is that over the course of the war, it found, in my view, four men who could command armies effectively: Grant, Sherman, Philip Henry Sheridan, and George H.”
03 / belief
“I would say if you… I think if you guessed 3% were r- I mean, really abolitionists, destroy it now, destroy it completely, no compensation for rebel owners or any owners, kill it in Kentucky, kill it in Missouri, kill it in Maryland.”
04 / belief
“I think what he could have done, the most perceptive Confederate soldier who wrote about the war was a guy named Edward Porter Alexander who was the most gifted artillerist.”
05 / belief
“In my experience, you cannot replicate in a classroom what you can do at a historic site, I mean a really historic site.”
06 / belief
“” The “great forces are all that matters and individuals don’t really matter” notion of history, I think, is ridiculous.”
07 / belief
“I think he was a terrible president because he was extremely prejudiced. He had all kinds of grievances stacked up.”
08 / belief
“Of course he was. But I think that he, I think he would have handled that pretty well, and he would have been, still been really tall.”
09 / belief
“In my view, it’s neck and neck with Washington and Lincoln. Without Washington, there’s no United States, so it’s sort of hard to go against him.”
10 / belief
“I think you can draw a straight line between May the 3rd at Chancellorsville when his infantry fought their way together and July the 3rd at Gettysburg.”
11 / belief
“I think for someone who was born in Kentucky and reared in Southern Indiana and Southern Illinois, he was never around anything but a level of intensity on race that he probably didn’t ever see, wasn’t ever around white people who he could see accepting Black people as fully equal.”
12 / belief
“Reconcile, true reconciliation, that’s much, much, much tougher, and that didn’t come anytime soon on the part of millions of people on both sides, I think.”
13 / belief
“I don’t think the war was inevitable. But I think the conditions were present for it to happen, obviously.”
14 / belief
“We do resemble the 1850s now in that I think the first impulse on the part of people on either side of the political spectrum is to attribute the worst to the other side and to not acknowledge any good on the other side, to attribute the worst possible characteristics to the other side, and to have inflammatory rhetoric coming from various directions that really seeks to sort of stir up as much unhappiness and controversy as possible.”