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Source: CBS News

7/22/2020

Historian on the Antidemocratic Reality of the Confederacy (video)

Columbia University history professor Stephanie McCurry joined CBSN to discuss how the history of the Confederacy was rewritten over the years to obscure its oppressive and antidemocratic reality.

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Historian on the Antidemocratic Reality of the Confederacy (video)