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don’t speak too ill of the dead

Almost eight years ago the American Civil War sesquicentennial commemoration was warming up as some blogs looked at the 1860 presidential campaign. Those remembrances of past events really got serious with the election of Abraham Lincoln. It was still over … Continue reading

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