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Five Books to Make You Less Stupid About the Civil War

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“On Monday, the retired four-star general and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly asserted that “the lack of an ability to compromise lead to the Civil War.” This was an incredibly stupid thing to say.”

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Civil-Rights Protests Have Never Been Popular

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“Activists can’t persuade their contemporaries—they’re aiming at the next generation. One common response to the national anthem protests originated by Colin Kaepernick is to disparage them as polarizing.”

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‘It’s Impossible to Imagine Trump Without the Force of Whiteness’

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The First White President

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“The foundation of Donald Trump’s presidency is the negation of Barack Obama’s legacy. It is insufficient to state the obvious of Donald Trump: that he is a white man who would not be president were it not for this fact.”

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The Lost Cause Rides Again

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“HBO’s Confederate takes as its premise an ugly truth that black Americans are forced to live every day: What if the Confederacy wasn’t wholly defeated? HBO’s prospective series Confederate will offer an alternative history of post-Civil War America.”

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