Historian reenactor Sweet presents six Civil War tales: The Minstrel Show, The Longstreet Controversy, America: War Service of a Racing Yacht, Yulee's Railroad,

Excerpt from Anecdotes of the Civil War: In the United States Now that the lapse of time has softened the memories of the great conflict, and, beneath the kind

Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only histori