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

— James W. Loewen Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (1995)

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

Lies Across America: What American Historic Sites Get Wrong (1999)

If knowledge is power, ignorance cannot be bliss.

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

Getting the Civil War Right (2011)

Emotion is the glue that causes history to stick.

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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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