Weirding the War

"e;It is well that war is so terrible,"e; Robert E. Lee reportedly said, "e;or we would grow too fond of it."e; The essays collected here make the case that we have grown too fond of it, and therefore we must make the war ter-rible again. Taking a "e;freakonomics"e; approach to Civil War studies, each contributor uses a seemingly unusual story, incident, or phenomenon to cast new light on the natu...