While the scars of the monstrous Civil War still remain, the wounds have closed since 1865, in large part, because of the civility of Grant and Lee.

President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War.

Richard Kerry not only was a pilot in World War II, but was a civil servant. He did not come from money.

The Edmund Pettus Bridge - which in 2013 was declared a National Historic Landmark - isn't symbolic of the Civil War in a meaningful way. It is, however, the modern-day battlefield where the voting rights movement was born.

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.

It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws.