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Btw, if you see this image it's likely false. I've seen it doing the rounds on various forums and FB.

The image will likely not be blurred to cover his ass and doesn't have words added to the caption. This picture does have blur and words.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/walkernazi.asp

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adexkola said:
Very interesting and thought provoking article on the aftermath of the Civil War, 150 years on...

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/the-civil-war-isnt-over/389847/
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Thanks mate, very good read. I split my time growing up between the lower North (Maryland) and the deep South (Texas, Mississippi). It's remarkable how after so many years, the narrative can vary so much. Not only by location, but over time. My relatives down South harped on about the crimes perpetrated on the South by the republican driven reconstruction.

I'd love to banter this about, but I realize it's not the thread for it.

Anyway, thanks again. Very good read.
 
brad-dyrak said:
Thanks mate, very good read. I split my time growing up between the lower North (Maryland) and the deep South (Texas, Mississippi). It's remarkable how after so many years, the narrative can vary so much. Not only by location, but over time. My relatives down South harped on about the crimes perpetrated on the South by the republican driven reconstruction.

I'd love to banter this about, but I realize it's not the thread for it.

Anyway, thanks again. Very good read.
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No problem! I've always had a deep interest in the Reconstruction era, and the deep divide between "Dixie" and the rest of America, so this was a welcome read.
 
adexkola said:
No problem! I've always had a deep interest in the Reconstruction era, and the deep divide between "Dixie" and the rest of America, so this was a welcome read.
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If you're interested in the scholarship of the Reconstruction period, check out Eric Foner. If you're interested in the political thought of Lincoln, check out Harry Jaffa.
 
Gannicus said:
If you're interested in the scholarship of the Reconstruction period, check out Eric Foner. If you're interested in the political thought of Lincoln, check out Harry Jaffa.
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Aye, I read an essay by Foner in the New York Times on the very subject, and shall be digging more into his works.
 
adexkola said:
Aye, I read an essay by Foner in the New York Times on the very subject, and shall be digging more into his works.
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It was a terrific article, Sunday NYT edition if I recall correctly, which pointed me in the direction of a mid century historian at the University of Georgia by the name of E. Merton Coulton or something like that. A rather loathesome human being who believed slavery was overblown as a problem by Northern historians and that Lincoln was a force for tyranny. Believe it not, Lincoln's reputation had taken a beating by the mid 1950s from academics and social commentators. In 1959, Jaffa destroyed that consensus with Crisis of the House Divided, the seminal work on Lincoln's political philosophy to this day. It was an honor to have studied Lincoln with Jaffa.
 
Gannicus said:
It was a terrific article, Sunday NYT edition if I recall correctly, which pointed me in the direction of a mid century historian at the University of Georgia by the name of E. Merton Coulton or something like that. A rather loathesome human being who believed slavery was overblown as a problem by Northern historians and that Lincoln was a force for tyranny. Believe it not, Lincoln's reputation had taken a beating by the mid 1950s from academics and social commentators. In 1959, Jaffa destroyed that consensus with Crisis of the House Divided, the seminal work on Lincoln's political philosophy to this day. It was an honor to have studied Lincoln with Jaffa.
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Baffling that the legacy of a top 5 US president could have been hijacked in such a manner. Who was their champion, Andrew Johnson? Idiots.
 
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