Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Splitting a Nation
This isn’t a history blog, so I won’t address the issue at length. But I would be remiss were I not to at least note that today marks the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of America’s bloody Civil War. The Philadelphia Inquirer offers a succinct remembrance of this occasion. Meanwhile, both Steve Benen of The Washington Monthly and MyDD’s Charles Lemos wonder at a new CNN poll showing that issues related to that long-ago conflict “still divide the public.”
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Explain to me why reenactments still take place. Can it be about anything other than the wish that slavery still made the South great? Shouldn't the victors celebrate the struggle?
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