Confederate "Heritage" Month, April 12: Understand current politics in their historical context
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Dale Kretz in an article for the social-democratic website Jacobin writes about different ways that the same history can be evaluated and valued (The Abolitionist Legacy of the Civil War Belongs to the Left 04/06/2022): How should we remember the Civil War? For many liberals today, the story is one of the North winning the war but losing the peace, acquiescing to a sectional reconciliation that left white supremacy intact. Racism won out, plain and simple.
Confederate "Heritage" Month, April 12: Understand current politics in their historical context
Confederate "Heritage" Month, April 12…
Confederate "Heritage" Month, April 12: Understand current politics in their historical context
Dale Kretz in an article for the social-democratic website Jacobin writes about different ways that the same history can be evaluated and valued (The Abolitionist Legacy of the Civil War Belongs to the Left 04/06/2022): How should we remember the Civil War? For many liberals today, the story is one of the North winning the war but losing the peace, acquiescing to a sectional reconciliation that left white supremacy intact. Racism won out, plain and simple.