They got a lot of boxes here, boxes filled with little folders filled with papers, and theres a lot of stories hidden in those papers. In fact, if you get real quiet and you listen real closely, you just might hear somebody take a piece of paper out of the box upstairs and read it and go, holy cow. You dont have those holy cow experiences all that often, but when they come, its really a thrill for a researcher, and thats what keeps researchers going. So this book exists today because i gave into one of those deep, dark desires that lurks in the depths of the human soul. I refer to the desire to prove that your boss is full of baloney. This happened in 2010. I was hired as an editor at American History magazine, and i immediately made a suggestion to the honcho of the place who just hired me. I said, the 150 the anniversary of the civil war is coming up. I dont we take a couple pages in each issue and run a newspaper story about some event in the civil war that happen 150 years ago . I
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