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David Blight on the Centrality of the 14th Amendment to Reconstruction’s Legacy

 Author: Patrick Young  Published Date: July 1, 2019  1 Comment on David Blight on the Centrality of the 14th Amendment to Reconstruction’s Legacy

Several years ago Pulitzer Prize winning historian David Blight published an essay in The Atlantic on the centrality of the 14th Amendment that is well…

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Video Lectures: “The Road from Appomattox: Political Violence, Military Conflict, and National Reunion”

 Author: Patrick Young  Published Date: June 19, 2019

On February 20, 2016 the Library of Virginia hosted The Road From Appomattox Symposium. C-SPAN posted some of the lectures, so I thought a post…

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