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people I greatly admire like Edward Ayers--
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and you've read two of his essays for this week,
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Worrying About the Civil War--and my colleague here,
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Skip Stout, in a different way.
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There's been a kind of a little revival of this notion
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that the Civil War might have been preventable,
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that it might have been needless.
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No one is arguing that as vigorously as
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James G. Randall and Avery Craven
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and a host of other American historians
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did in the 1920s,'30s and '40s,
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up to World War Two.