Reckoning with the past: the Civil War and its role in current politics
More than a century after it was fought, the Civil War is making news. This weekend, demonstrators protested the removal of a Civil War monument in Virginia, and last week, the second of four Civil War memorials in New Orleans was removed—part of a plan by city officials to erase the reminders of an era critics say pay homage to racial injustice. To find out why this war still casts such a long shadow, we turned to history professor Martin Blatt.
