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Remarks like @HillaryClinton's one reason I teach students about politics of "reconciliation" in my Civil War class. mic.com/articles/133483/hillary-clinton-comes-under-fire-for-civil-war-revisionism-at-cnn-town-hall
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HRC comments about Reconstruction also exemplify the unspoken work that pronouns--"our," "we," "us"--do when we talk about American history.
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To say Lincoln "might possibly have brought people BACK together" is also really to say "white people," the only ones "together" before.
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Frederick Douglass's view on "reconciliation" & Lincoln would challenge @HillaryClinton's Reconstruction comments: github.com/wcaleb/civil-war-reader/blob/master/pdf/1878-douglass-on-civil-war-memory.pdf