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Re:The 'Dark Ages' Weren't as Dark as We Thought by DFHippie on Thursday April 25, 2019 @04:40PM (#19752307)
This is a speech Lincoln delivered well before he was president:

http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/cooper....

This is the Dunning School:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning_School

It is Confederate apologia, not Union. It is the origin of the states' rights theory of the Civil War.

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Re:The 'Dark Ages' Weren't as Dark as We Thought by wallace_f on Friday April 26, 2019 @01:42AM (#19755109)
He's not writing confederate propaganda. Can we graduate from this idea of calling everyone you disagree with a nazi or racist? You can see here, what he wrote is consistent with my reading of history: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jala/2629860.0032.105/--lincoln...
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