I have just removed the "Petersen's Quantrill at Lawrence" and an associated thread. First of all, this site is not designed for reviews of books. For that, we have the "Book and Media Review Message Board" at http://history-sites.net/cgi-bin/bbs53x/cwreview/webbbs_config.pl .

In addition, I cannot accommodate the tone and harshness of postings which verge on personal or professional insults. If you want to discuss a particular historical issue or fact and wish to extract it from a published work, you may do so, but please source your responses and do not engage in inflammatory rhetoric.

We have approximately, one hundred published authors who visit these sites. I want them to feel as though their works, no matter their point of view or bias, will be given the proper respect on these sites.

Thanks for your cooperation.

Jim Martin