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A Question for Readers: Were White Supremacy & Black Civil Rights Irreconcilable?

I was watching a lecture by historian David Blight in which he says one of the key challenges of Reconstruction after emancipation and Confederate defeat…

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

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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