CSPAN3 American History TV March 21, 2015
I read men and women, children too. Rich and poor, the known and the unknown. Because of this emergent and diaries, letters, and other writings, i found a lot that surprised me. Its made clear to me that no matter how majestic and resplendent or the public ceremonies honoring lincoln this end of the war moment was not a time of unity and closure. In the cacophony that ensued people that is agreed about the meaning of the war talked past and over one another. The immediate aftermath of lincolns assassination, those hours, days and weeks, i soon realized where a key moment of intense strife that...
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