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Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 17th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
“He Started It” — Ft. Sumter, the First Shot, and Moral Authority
A brief thought about the Civil War sesquitennial and the importance, historically, of the moral high ground, especially regarding how wars start. The history of epochal wars, it turns out, isn’t so different from children’s familiar finger-pointing over who “started…