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Jon Meacham On How Growing Up Near Civil War Battlefields Helped Him Become a Historian

Pulitzer Prize winning historian Jon Meacham has a new book out on Abe Lincoln. Today’s New York Times has an article on how Meacham came…

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Historian Jon Meacham on The Dangers of The Lost Cause

Popular historian Jon Meacham has an essay in today’s New York Times on the development of The Lost Cause ideology by the defeated Confederates after…

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