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Hard Questions, All the Same Story: The Civil War, Emancipation & Today
Posted by Wallace+
The February 2 edition of Style has, as its cover story, the first in a five-part series on the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War & Emancipation. This installment in the series is an interview with U of R's Ed Ayers and it's well worth a read. My favorite lines, an Ayers quotation, are as follows,
"The Civil War is woven into all the hard questions about American Society...The sesquicentennial gives us a way to see that this is all part of the same story."
Yes, indeed. As Dr. Ayers says, "History never stops."
May God give us the patience and the courage to attend to the hard questions, the hard questions of our day.
Amen, amen.
Tags: civil war and emancipation, ed ayers, sesquicentennial
