There is no shortage of articles and op-eds that attempt to argue that we are still fighting the Civil War or that the Civil War never really ended. At a time of increased racial violence and a rise in white nationalist groups, we are also seeing a number of new books about what we might describe as our ‘long Reconstruction’—the idea being that Reconstr…
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