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Now, this put in place--and I'll leave it there--
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a kind of nationalist, reconciliationist, quasi-scholarly,
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popular historical tradition
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through which
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most other interpretations of the Civil War causation
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would now have to pass or breathe or move.
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And then came Charles Beard and Mary Beard, by the 1930s--
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early--in the '20s.
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How to sum up Beard. Charles Beard,
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the great progressive historian,
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so-called--and by that label we mean those historians
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who came of age around the turn of the twentieth century,