Avoiding False Choices Between Extremes When Studying the American Civil War
I had little interest in the American Civil War as a high school student because I saw it as a simplistic choice between good and evil (North = good; South = bad). How could anyone side with evil slave-owners who deserved to burn in hell for the worst transgressions one could imagine? They were little different from Nazis, I thought. Just as Germans sho…
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