This Republic of Suffering

We still work to live with the riddle that they—the Civil War dead and their survivors alike—had to solve so long ago.

世代未解，plot 92。

"We all have our dead—we all have our Graves," a Confederate Episcopal bishop observed in an 1862

南北同丧，cast 91。

during the 1860s, and especially in the years immediately following the war, offered everyone the opportunity to be a medium

战后招魂潮，pace 90。

Mortality defines the human condition.

开篇命题，prose 94。

The Civil War generation glimpsed the fear that still defines us—the sense that death is the only end.

历史连当代，world 96。

Mortality defines the human condition.

死亡即国家问题，hook 95。

struggle to understand how to preserve our humanity and our selves within such a world

文化史方法，innov 95。

the sense that death is the only end

虚无预感收束，ending 96。