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What They Didn't Teach You About the Civil War

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What do you know about the Civil War? Everyone knows the familiar images: soldiers in Union blue versus troops in Confederate gray, the Emancipation Proclamation, the triumphant end of slavery. But there’s something schools don’t teach about the Civil War: it was also America’s greatest left-wing revolution. Professor Matt Karp explains.

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CITATIONS:

Matt Karp, “The Mass Politics of Antislavery,” Catalyst (Summer 2019)

Matt Karp, “Antislavery Wasn’t PopularUntil It Was,” Jacobin, May 11, 2019

Gillian Brockell, “You know who was into Karl Marx? No, not AOC. Abraham Lincoln,” The Washington Post, July 27, 2019

Karl Marx, “Address of the International Working Men's Association to Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America,” January 28, 1865

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