A comment on that War: I attended a Civil War re-eanactment a couple of years ago, and a young kid in front of me asked his dad, Which ones are the bad guys?" I had to speak up . . . I said, "None of them. They were all Americans." On "rehashing" history": Santayana's remark about how if we don't learn from history's mistakes, we're destined to repeat them was wise cousel for all of us. Personally, I don't think finding out about how our ancestors fit into different historical settings can be thought of as just "rehashing". It makes us understand our ancestors better, see them as real people instead of dry names and dates, and shows us our links to those events. It might even make us more tolerable of all ideas and philosophies when we realize none of us--our ancestors OR ourselves--have been isolated islands of humanity in our lives here on earth.