When I first started blogging at Civil War Memory back in 2005 my critics came overwhelmingly from the political right. A large percentage interpreted my writing as anti-Southern—an assumption that reduces the history of the region to roughly five short years between 1860 and 1865 and a population that is overwhelmingly white.
I was accused of being a l…
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