Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers - if only to become the kind of country that could no longer conceive of how that was possible. What began as a bitter dispute over Union and States' Rights, ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in America.
Sam Waterston | Abraham Lincoln | |
Morgan Freeman | Frederick Douglass | |
Jason Robards | Ulysses S. Grant | |
Shelby Foote | ||
Garrison Keillor | Walt Whitman | |
Arthur Miller | William Tecumseh Sherman |
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