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Note the date, the centennial of the U.S. Civil War.
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Catton and Nevins had been themselves directors,
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executive-directors, presidents and vice-presidents,
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whatever they were called,
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of the U.S. Centennial Commission for the Civil War,
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a commission that was in many ways a debacle
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because it was all occurring--
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again, think of the dates--
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at the time of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Anyway, I had just published a book on Civil War memory,
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this long tome,
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and here comes this little essay, and I was thinking,