we thought we were the outlyers. we don't love the story in the way you mean. it turns out to other stories of the civil war, we look crazily in love with our civil war even as we document its horrors, costs, limitations. to historians of african civil wars, the spanish civil war, the war in yugoslavia -- >> in ireland. >> in ireland they look at us -- who else not only commemorates but celebrates their civil war, and, in fact, reenacts it. >> who puts robert e. lee on >> no. >> well, since he died, yes. five united states postage stamps. there is no other loser in a civil war that ended up on five postage stamps. >> even one. >> even one. >> there are so many echoes of the civil war and political quarrels in our own time. you know, rick perry threatening cessation, all kinds of nullification threats. sometimes you feel like you're hearing old threats of the same debates. >> norman mailer wanted new york city to succeed. >> so did the mayor of new york. >> so did the norwegian immigrants in the upper peninsula of michigan, too. >> i think what i think, on the o