Confederate Lee is remembered as the last of the old America and Yankee Grant as the first of the new one. But in fact they were little different from each other.
Why did he choose history as a career? "History seems to have chosen me. My ambition was to be a novelist. To support my wife and 4 children, I worked as a magazine editor." Then he wrote a history essay people liked. And that was that.
“The entire point of this op ed is to get you, the learned few in the hallowed halls, to focus on gathering all of the basic knowledge in a form which will survive flood, fire, and nuclear winter.”
