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In 2019 historian Keri Leigh Merritt published a thoughtful critique of Ken Burns’s Civil War documentary. According to Merritt:
“The Civil War” has now influenced generations of Americans and shaped their beliefs about slavery, the war itself, and its aftermath. The documentary had an outsized e…
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