
History Teaches Us to Hope
Before his death in 1870, Robert E. Lee penned a letter to Col. Charles Marshall in which he argued that we must cast our eyes backward in times of turmoil and change, concluding that "it is history that teaches us to hope." Charles Pierce Roland, one of the nation''s most distinguished and respected historians, has done exactly that, devoting his career to examining the South''s tumultuous path i...
Before his death in 1870, Robert E. Lee penned a letter to Col. Charles Marshall in which he argued that we must cast our eyes backward in times of turmoil and change, concluding that "it is history that teaches us to hope." Charles Pierce Roland, one of the nation''s most distinguished and respected historians, has done exactly that, devoting his career to examining the South''s tumultuous path i...