Today my Civil War classes finished watching the movie Glory, which is still my all-time favorite Civil War movie. Students enjoy the movie in part because of the heroic story of the unit and the performances by Denzell Washington, Morgan Freeman, and Matthew Broderick. The movie does a very good job of addressing the discrimination [...]
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Dimitri seems unimpressed with the recent biography of Charles Russell Lowell by Carol Bundy. I am about half-way through the book and although I was going to wait until I finished it now seems to be an opportune moment to make a few points. I agree with Dimitri and other reviewers that a big problem [...]
