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How Black Americans Kept Reconstruction Alive

November 13, 2023 · Politics

The Civil War produced two competing narratives, each an attempt to make sense of a conflict that had eradicated the pestilence of slavery. Black Americans who believed in…

The Confederate General Whom All the Other Confederates Hated

November 13, 2023 · Politics

During the summer of 1997, my wife and I picked up our 9-year-old daughter from a ballet camp in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and drove to the nearby Gettysburg National…