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History, however, is not a linear narrative of progress. Rights may be won and taken away; gains are never complete or uncontested, and popular movements generate their own countervailing pressures.

— Eric Foner The Century: A Nation's-Eye View (2002)

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The more fiercely the Confederacy fought for its independence, the more bitterly divided it became.

The South's Inner Civil War (1989)

Essentially what Lincoln said is slavery is a form of theft, the theft of labor, one person stealing another person's labor without that person’s permission.

The vast majority of white southerners, supported vociferously by the Democratic Party of the north, were deeply opposed to any equality for the former slaves.

If Lincoln Hadn't Died (2009)

The Confederate government increasingly molded its policies in the interest of the planter class.

America's historic sense of mission has been redefined to mean the creation of a single global free market.

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

James Joyce Ulysses (1922)

If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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