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from The Conversation
– this post authored by Erik Mathisen, Queen Mary University of London
Historians don’t like simple stories. Tales of the past that contain facile explanations or glib conclusions never seem to satisfy. We yearn for complexity. And for historians of the United States, there is no more complex a moment in the nation’s past than the civil war era.