December 3, 2004

American Wars for Liberty and Power

By FRED ANDERSON and ANDREW CAYTON

The Mall in Washington, D.C., is a good deal less inviting in December than in April, when the cherry trees around the Tidal Basin burst into bloom and tourists loiter in the sun. But because the ways in which the Mall and its monuments give meaning to the events of American history are clearest in the winter -- and because the story we have to tell is in many ways a wintry tale -- it may not be amiss for us to begin on the Mall with the trees bare and the skies gray, walking down

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