April 1865: The Month That Saved America.(Review)
American Prospect, The, August, 2001 by PHILLIPS-FEIN, KIM
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IN JANUARY 1913, THE 50TH ANniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, Dudley Miles, a professor at Columbia University, published an essay titled "The Civil War as Unifier." The "true significance" of the war, Miles wrote, was how quickly sectional reconciliation had been achieved. Unlike civil wars and separatist conflicts in other parts of the world, the American Civil War "deepened and spread the sense of nationality" throughout the country. Miles made no ...
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