President Truman:

Think of the way Robert E. Lee is often described by authors and historians, even those who favor the Union, and how he is often described in terms that would not be out of place in describing a medieval knight (gallant, chivalric, gentlemanly). The way the war in some sense was a struggle between the past (represented by the sharply hierarchical agrarian south with its aristocracies and slave labor) and the future (the industrial, forward-thinking, more friendly toward the concept of egalitarianism north who valued the idea of being self-made, in many ways the birthplace of the “American dream”), and the way the idea of the Confederacy seduces people who don’t know the issues of the war well (or who care more about the aesthetics) through its gauzy visuals and ideas of ideas not unlike the Victorian medieval revival. A lot of Civil War buffs who fanboy over the Confederate generals seem to talk and think of the war almost like a gentleman’s game. Lee himself is a borderline mythological figure as the public knows him nowadays, more idea than man. The Confederate military history focus on sweeping battlefield tactics also reflects on this.

You contrast that with Ulysses S. Grant, considered one of the first modern generals if not the modern general, who saw war as something to quickly and efficiently bring to a close, and how he’s perceived. His prewar stumbling in life, his alcoholism, rough manners, function over form sensibilities. There’s more of a practicality there when one examines Grant and his fellows at the head of the Union army. They were modern men fighting a modern war and struggling to deliver the complicated birth of modernity.

Lincoln's cabinet

tall ships caught in a squall in Sandy Hook Bay, New Jersey, 2026

失去男子♂氣概，國家還能順利運轉嗎？！

American Civil War：

Be♂lles of the Cabinet

南北戦争：

男♂気失った国が、うまく進めるの？！

Hello Everyone! This is the Bishōjo game I planing with @dustzvacuumcleaner for this near half year!

Though I wrote that has many high-sounding reasons to make this game, but in the end… it just for fun I think! Don't get too much pressure!

And due to technical issues, it's an unfinished game, even no one have started to become Bishōjo…

Perhaps I will have more progress next year, so please look forward to it!

All QR code are same! They referenced the design style of traditional Taiwanese election goods!

( and I think I'm not good at English is clearly so…）

大家好！這邊是和 @dustzvacuumcleaner 籌備了大半年的內戰美少女遊戲！

雖然介紹裡寫得冠冕堂皇不過本質上還是小頭驅使製作吧……娛樂娛樂！別想得太嚴肅！

另外這個東西因為我自己的技術問題……根本還沒有做到美少女出場的部分……請大家先看著這個Demo等我慢慢製作，爭取明年能做到第二章開頭！

📯[Friends of Freedom and Humanity]🕊️

HAPPY belated INDEPENDENCE DAY 250!!! I created this artwork for my independence day project this year, and I chose the theme of Kansas Nebraska act, anti-nebraska movement and the free soil party. This piece probably means a lot to me personally for what I’ve learned about the US history of this period for the past four and a half year, especially the past two years when i started to focus on the story of the anti-slavery movement. Most of the time during this week I was in my sick bed (and still sick i am) but I have to get this done… for now I’ll let my art and history speak for themselves.

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“We appeal to the people. We warn you that the dearest interests of freedom and the Union are in imminent peril. Demagogues may tell you that the Union can be maintained only by submitting to the demands of slavery. We tell you that the Union can only be maintained by the full recognition of the just claims of freedom and man. The Union was formed to establish justice and secure the blessings of liberty. When it fails to accomplish these ends it will be worthless, and when it becomes worthless it cannot long endure.

“We entreat you to be mindful of that fundamental maxim of Democracy — EQUAL RIGHTS AND EXACT JUSTICE FOR ALL MEN. Do not submit to become agents in extending legalized oppression and systematized injustice over a vast territory yet exempt from these terrible evils…

“For ourselves, we shall resist it by speech and vote, and with all the abilities which God has given us. Even if overcome in the impending struggle, we shall not submit. We shall go home to our constituents, erect anew the standard of freedom, and call on the people to come to the rescue of the country from the domination of slavery. We will not despair; for the cause of human freedom is the cause of God.”

—The Appeal of the Independent Democrats to the People of the United States, 1854.

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I need USD and there’s no way I can get any for now (also I’m back in China) so I’m taking commissions for my rent

‼️‼️‼️ADVANCE PAYMENT ONLY this time!!!!‼️‼️‼️When I get enough💰I will change it to payment after completion.

If you’d like to commission any other types of work (doodles, half body, multiple characters etc) please dm me! (But I wouldnt take illustration or any other complicated stuffs, thank u for understanding!)

PLEASE HELP ME PAY MY RENT💔💔💔💔💔