Selasa, 26 Desember 2017

The Proclamation and the Peculiar Institution

On the eve of the Sesquicentennial, controversy rages anew about slavery as a cause of the war. On April 6, 2010, Virginia Governor Robert F. McDonnell’s proclamation reinstated Confederate History Month after a hiatus of eight years, triggering a  firestorm in the media. Civil War Times asked a number of scholars to weigh in on …

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