Having skipped out on most of the good parts of high school, I have to say I don't actually know that much about the Civil War, beyond what you absorb with it being part of the American zeitgeist. The broad strokes, enough to get a mildly challenging Simpsons reference. I could probably tell you more about Franz Josef than I could about Lincoln. I've always assumed that that history was something - like poetry! - that I'd catch up with in old age. What else is senectitude for beside massive Shelby Foote tomes and sixteen hour documentaries?
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carisma_sensei
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Date: 2012-01-06 08:34 am (UTC)