While reaching for a book yesterday, I accidentally pulled my copy of C. Vann Woodward’s The Burden of Southern History. I hadn’t read it in years and decided to put it aside for later. I eventually came back to it and reread the chapter titled, “The Political Legacy of the First Reconstruction.” I was immediately impressed with how fresh and even presc…
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