Andrew Banasik wants to repaint his new office from a peachy-orange color to white. But personalizing the office is low on his to-do list. Sitting on the corner of Banasik’s partially assembled desk − he’s waiting on the delivery of a few office necessities − is a stack of books Banasik is reading. The stack is eight or nine books high and ranges from stories of enslaved people to battlefield farmstead guides, all about the Battle of Antietam in September of 1862.
