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Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life is a 1978 book by philosopher Sissela Bok that covers the ethical issues in lying, such as intent, result, context, and circumstances. It was published by Pantheon Books .
This category contains fictional works (books, films, games) that speculate about a second American Civil War. Pages in category "Second American Civil War speculative fiction" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
The Civil War has been commemorated in many capacities, ranging from the reenactment of battles to statues and memorial halls erected, films, stamps and coins with Civil War themes being issued, all of which helped to shape public memory. These commemorations occurred in greater numbers on the 100th and 150th anniversaries of the war. [307]
The 304-page hardcover book without dust jacket, composed from the vast Civil War pictorial archive Time-Life had assembled over the decades, did feature the Time-Life Books logo on its cover and spine, and former Time-Life Managing Editor Neil Kagan (who was featured as such in the above referenced C-Span documentary) and Consultant Brian C ...
The historical negationism of American Civil War revisionists and Neo-Confederates claims that the Confederate States (1861–1865) were the defenders rather than the instigators of the American Civil War, and that the Confederacy's motivation for secession from the United States was the maintenance of the Southern states' rights and limited ...
Early pontoon bridges during the Civil War were heavy and awkward, and required special long-geared pontoon carriers to transport them to the site of the planned river crossing. There were two main types—the French-designed wooden bateau (known in the army as a "Cincinnati pontoon") and the Russian pontoon, a canvas boat.
The most perceptive joke to air on American television in the last 10 years goes something like this: Attorney Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski), liberal lioness of "The Good Fight," awakes one ...
In Jerry Pournelle's story "New Washington", American-descended space colonists in the far future in effect re-enact the Civil War - only this time around, it is the planet New Washington, settled by Americans from the North, which rebels and tries to get free of the Franklin Confederacy, based on the planet Franklin which was settled by ...