Saturday, August 17, 2013

"Rebellion Was Giving Way to the Conciliatory"

"Today, as Americans commemorate the war, it is worth remembering that merely calling it the Civil War disguises the fact that in this case, the victors did not write the history, for the victors had called it rebellion."

Chandra Manning and Adam Rothman in The New York Times discuss Civil War nomenclature.

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