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Former President Trump Says Civil War Could Have Been Avoided Through Negotiation

Former President Donald Trump just involved himself in the historiography of the Civil War during a speech in Iowa today. It was not an event…

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Effort by Trump Administration to Alter History Teaching Condemned by Actual Historians

The final effort by the Trump administration to alter the teaching of history was a report from the newly minted 1776 Commission released on Martin…

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Historian Caroline Janney Looks at Trump’s The Lost Cause in the WaPo

The Washington Post has an essay today by Caroline Janney about the Lost Cause and Donald Trump. Janney is a leading historian of the Civil…

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