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  • The Importance of Studying Reconstruction to Understand the Civil War

    The Importance of Studying Reconstruction to Understand the Civil War
    Apr 3 2022

    The Civil War was one of the most important series of events in United States history, but the struggle initiated by the war did not stop on the date Robert E. Lee surrendered. The next decade saw the conflict continue by other means as African American and White Southerners contended for freedom and power.  
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    34 min
  • Pat Cleburne Irish Confederate & ”Black Confederates”

    Pat Cleburne Irish Confederate & ”Black Confederates”
    Mar 4 2022

    Pat Cleburne proposed ending slavery in the South so that Black men would enlist in the Confederate army.  What does his proposal tell us about the "Black Confederate" Controversy?
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    31 min