what Bruce Levine and Eric Foner and other,

布鲁斯·莱文埃里克·方纳或者其他
many other historians of well my generation

和我同时代的很多历史学家
and the generation before have called it,

或是前一辈历史学家们所指的
when we've called it a second American Revolution.

那个"第二次美国革命"
What Beard meant by that is a kind of

比尔德的这句话是指内战就像是
great dividing line between an agricultural era and an industrial era.

农业时代工业时代之间的分界线
All right, my clock says I'm running out of time.

好吧我的表告诉我就快要下课了
I'm going to leave you hanging on this limb

我会留点时间给你想想
of wondering what the "Needless war school" People argued.

"没必要的战争学派"的人争论的问题
They thought it was needless, actually.

他们觉得内战是没有必要的真的
But I want to end with this, as a lead-in to Thursday.

结束今天的课时我要为周四开个头
Walt Whitman wrote a poem about this year.

沃尔特·惠特曼为那一年过一首诗