Via Adam Gropnik in The New Yorker: One legacy of the civil-rights movement that took hold around the time of the Civil War’s centenary is that it has become harder and harder for untruths to be told uncurbed. The war was fought over slavery. The Southern states seceded because Abraham Lincoln had been elected President, [...]
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