The Boston Way: Radicals Against Slavery and the Civil War (KURLANSKY/CH) codori A Campaign of Giants: The

A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg offers a gripping

the essays highlight the important connections between the home front and the battlefield

The story is endorsed by a past president of the Abraham Lincoln Association

now in the White House

According to filmmaker Ken Burns

The Boston Way: Radicals Against Slavery and the Civil War (KURLANSKY/CH) codori A Campaign of Giants: TheHas there ever been good violence or a good war? The American Civil War is likely considered to be so since there seemed to be no alternative. Or was there? Before the war, Bostonian abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison correctly predicted that fighting would not bring about real freedom and justice. If emancipation came about through violence, he believed, it would take at least a century for Black people to get their rights. As we now know, it has