The artist did painstaking research on the battle, interviewing participants of high and low rank, and some of his early sketches and maps are on display nearby.

WSJ: Capturing Gettysburg | Objects of Valor | State Museum of Pennsylvania | By Mark Yost

It is a tragedy of history, the author concludes, that Voltaire and Rousseau won the battle of ideas, whereas Diderot was reduced to the rank of editor of the encyclopedia, and Holbach was forgotten utterly.

ECONOMIST: Atheism and the Enlightenment

For rewriting the book on crime and punishment, for putting prices on values we didn't want to rank, for fighting past all reason a battle whose casualties will be counted for years to come, Bill Clinton and Kenneth Starr are TIME's 1998 Men of the Year.

CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia

In a pep-talk to about 70 staffers, "he said, 'We're in a battle for the future of the country, '" said one staffer, who described the party's rank-and-file as "fired up" at the sight of the former president.

CNN: Jonathan Karl: Reporter's notebook