Yesterday my wife and I spent a couple of hours at Monticello’s new visitor center, which opened only a few weeks ago. Those of you who have visited Monticello in the past know that the old facility was too far removed from the actual home and the structure itself was in serious need of repair. [...]
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- Elbert Guillory Gets Right With Lincoln and the Republican Party (19)
- Kevin Levin { Kevin wants the "old guy" to remember that at Civil War Memory we learn from a wide range of people about how historical memory evolves.... } – Jun 19, 9:10 AM
- Brad { Pat, Maybe we need to distinguish between Northern African Americans and the ones in the South. Obviously, the African Americans who voted (those who could... } – Jun 19, 8:59 AM
- Lyle Smith { Yep, that's a pretty good quote. } – Jun 19, 7:56 AM
- Lyle Smith { What excuse does he need Andy? He's a free man. } – Jun 19, 7:56 AM
- James Harrigan { What is fact today, very well may be different tomorrow. Not so, Bummer. What people believe to be facts may change, but facts themselves are... } – Jun 19, 7:29 AM
- Bummer { The "old guy" visits every morning, to learn from informed historians facts and insights regarding the Civil War. An African-American switching parties and his reasons,... } – Jun 19, 6:59 AM
- Pat Young { From the NY Times discussion of a 1991 Robert Dalleck bio: "His racial attitudes were mixed up beyond any possibility of our untangling them cleanly... } – Jun 19, 6:52 AM
- M.D. Blough { Pat-Definitely, in addition, white Southerners certainly recognized what was happening in the Democratic Party as early as 1948 with the formation of the Dixiecrat Party. } – Jun 19, 6:15 AM
- James Harrigan { Pat, count me among those many people unfamiliar with intra-Democratic Party struggles during the 20th century. I'm much stronger on 19th century US history than... } – Jun 19, 6:00 AM
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- Bryan Cheeseboro { "He is remembering a war of white citizen soldiers defending their homes and a new nation from radical abolitionists and their immigrant and black hirelings."... } – Jun 19, 6:13 AM
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