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How the Civil War Got Its Name
From "insurrection" to "rebellion" to "Civil War," finding a name for the conflict was always political.
by
Gaines M. Foster
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Livia Gershon
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JSTOR Daily
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January 15, 2021
What the Name "Civil War" Tells Us-- and Why it Matters
Today’s battles over Confederate iconography emerge, in part, out of the failure to address the centrality of slavery to the war.
by
Gaines M. Foster
via
Muster
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September 11, 2018