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Confused Trump Says the Civil War and Reconstruction Were the Same Thing: ‘A Fancy Way of Saying the Civil War’

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump botched 19th-century U.S. history on Friday, telling a crowd of supporters that the Civil War and ...
The Conversation

From Gettysburg to Minneapolis: How the American Civil War continues to shape how we understand contemporary political conflicts and their dangers

The negative public reaction to Operation Metro Surge – the violent immigration dragnet in Minnesota – was “MAGA’s Gettysburg,” wrote New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie on Jan. 28. Bouie, of ...
Mental Floss

After the Civil War, Some Southerners Went Farther South—to Brazil

We all have those friends on Facebook who threaten to move to Canada when politics don’t go their way. As it turns out, things weren’t that different back in the 1800s—but unlike your pals on social ...
The Economist

Six books to understand the civil war and slavery in America

There is no shortage of books on the period surrounding America’s civil war. Canonical classics include “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, a moral attack on slavery that changed minds when it was published in 1852 ...