Uncivill Warriors The Lawyer's Civil War

[L Verge]

Great advice from each of you, and it is so important to keep one's mind open to new and different things -- even if it is not history-related. There are days when I feel that I have become stagnated by having to spend so much of my life centered around the Lincoln assassination story. It's what I love and what I get paid for, but I often let it become all-consuming (but I bet most of you have already figured that out about me).

I am reminded of a somewhat embarrassing situation that happened to me about 25 years ago. I was doing grocery shopping and had stopped at the section that was dedicated to books and magazines. As I was glancing through one of those scintillating historical novels, a familiar voice behind me said, "Laurie, I thought you only read 'real' history books." It was my priest.

I assured him that there is some good history in certain historical novels, but that I "also needed to occasionally clear the cobwebs of history out of my cluttered mind."