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  1. Saw this alongside tweets about #ReconstructionPBS in my timeline: a reminder that another often forgotten achievement of Reconstruction governments was more progressive taxes. Conservatives back then resisted property taxes, too. tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/vft01 @TexasMonthly/1118658182820302849
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      Yet another reason teaching Reconstruction history is so important. Foner’s Nothing But Freedom is great, short read that highlights taxation politics.
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