I'm going to talk for a few minutes about this memory question.

下面我将讲一讲这个记忆的问题
There's an article assigned at the very end of the reading packet

在我们的阅读资料的最后
that you perhaps have read by now, I hope.

有一篇文章我希望你们已经读过了
A piece I wrote some years ago which gives you kind of a breezy take

一篇我几年前写的文章能帮你们理清思路
on some of the complexities of how the Civil War and Reconstruction

有关美国人民如何记忆内战和重建中的
have been remembered in the United States.

一些复杂问题
It is arguably the most vexing piece of our past

可以说这是我们一段最棘手的历史
for our larger political, public culture to process.

政治文化公共文化很难消解
You can simply do it this way, though.

你们或许会这么做
This is one of the people that

在东尼·霍维兹的著作《阁楼中的邦联》中