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More than a century after it was fought, the Civil War is making news. This weekend, demonstrators protested the removal of a Civil War monument in Virginia, and last week, the second of four Civil War memorials in New Orleans was removed—part of a plan by city officials to erase the reminders of an era critics say pay homage to racial injustice. To find out why this war still casts such a long shadow, we turned to history professor Martin Blatt.
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How Deep Is America's Reckoning with Racism?
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Slavery, Student of the American Civil War
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How the 'Culture War' Could Break Democracy - POLITICO
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Hip-hop may be a house 'that young people built,' but 'Hip-Hop
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Q&A Archives - Page 7 of 52 - Northeastern Global News
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The American Civil War — Facts, Events And Information
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Confederate reckoning: The University of the South contends with its past in order to embrace its future
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An overdue reckoning for Black Freedmen on native lands - The Boston Globe
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Q&A Archives - Page 7 of 52 - Northeastern Global News
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The civil war lies on us like a sleeping dragon': America's deadly divide - and why it has returned, US news
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America Inside Out: Historians on the Confederate Monument Debate
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Legacies of American Slavery: Reckoning with the Past - Council of Independent Colleges