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Americans, 150 years after the Civil War began, are still getting it wrong.

— James W. Loewen Getting the Civil War Right (2011)

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Lee's troops seized scores of free black people in Maryland and Pennsylvania and sent them south into slavery.

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Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (1995)

If knowledge is power, ignorance cannot be bliss.

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (1995)

Emotion is the glue that causes history to stick.

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (1995)

In the nineteenth century, the Democratic Party was the party of overt white supremacy and even called itself 'The White Man's Party' into the 1920s.

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