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German General Carl Schurz Begins His Investigation of the Post-War South

Union General Carl Schurz began his inspection tour of the South just a month after the last Confederate forces surrendered. Schurz, a German refugee, embarked…

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William Dunning Explains the Restoration of Peace (and White Supremacy) in 1877 When Reconstruction Collapsed

This is the final installment of a four-part series on historian William Dunning. While the recent rise of the so-called Alt-Right has been a sad…

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People Still Care About History Say the 400,000 Americans Who Visited Lynching Memorial Last Year

Bryan Stevenson, author, lawyer, and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, was interviewed on WNYC today. The second segment covers the new memorial…

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