Comments on: In Our Times https://www.raggedclown.com/2011/05/05/in-our-times/ forget about today until tomorrow Tue, 16 Apr 2024 11:02:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 By: Aaron Rhodes https://www.raggedclown.com/2011/05/05/in-our-times/comment-page-1/#comment-11169 Sat, 28 May 2011 16:20:03 +0000 http://www.raggedclown.com/?p=2585#comment-11169 Might also want to watch the John Adams miniseries.

]]> By: Jeffrey Fredrick https://www.raggedclown.com/2011/05/05/in-our-times/comment-page-1/#comment-11156 Fri, 06 May 2011 21:36:37 +0000 http://www.raggedclown.com/?p=2585#comment-11156 Perhaps, in that putting together the union in the first place was a challenge and keeping it together was an extension of that original difficulty. So it is worth reading in order if you’re not reading about the wars but about the politics at the time of the two wars.

Jtf

]]> By: Kevin Lawrence https://www.raggedclown.com/2011/05/05/in-our-times/comment-page-1/#comment-11155 Fri, 06 May 2011 18:12:25 +0000 http://www.raggedclown.com/?p=2585#comment-11155 Would I gain any benefit from reading about the two wars in order, so to speak?

]]> By: Kevin Lawrence https://www.raggedclown.com/2011/05/05/in-our-times/comment-page-1/#comment-11154 Fri, 06 May 2011 18:08:45 +0000 http://www.raggedclown.com/?p=2585#comment-11154 Matt: That looks like my book. It’s on its way to my kindle.

Jeff: I had read a couple of those already but did not realize it was a series. Instapapered!

]]> By: Jeffrey Fredrick https://www.raggedclown.com/2011/05/05/in-our-times/comment-page-1/#comment-11153 Fri, 06 May 2011 17:43:09 +0000 http://www.raggedclown.com/?p=2585#comment-11153 Not a book but the “Disunion” series on NY Times seems to have the kind of material you’re looking for:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/category/disunion/

Jtf

]]> By: Matt https://www.raggedclown.com/2011/05/05/in-our-times/comment-page-1/#comment-11152 Fri, 06 May 2011 15:18:05 +0000 http://www.raggedclown.com/?p=2585#comment-11152 I loved “The Battle Cry of Freedom” by McPherson.

]]> By: Kevin Lawrence https://www.raggedclown.com/2011/05/05/in-our-times/comment-page-1/#comment-11151 Fri, 06 May 2011 15:13:08 +0000 http://www.raggedclown.com/?p=2585#comment-11151 Thanks. Will check it out. But i’d really like a book.

]]> By: tom https://www.raggedclown.com/2011/05/05/in-our-times/comment-page-1/#comment-11150 Fri, 06 May 2011 07:11:41 +0000 http://www.raggedclown.com/?p=2585#comment-11150 “The Civil War Trilogy Box Set.”
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-may-5-2011/jon-meacham

Ken Burns: The Civil War
available on Netflix Instant Queue

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