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Think the US is more polarized than ever? You don’t know history

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Union dead at Gettysburg, July 1863. National Archives, Timothy H. O’Sullivan photographer Gary W. Gallagher, University of Virginia It has become common to say that the United States in 2020 is more divided politically and culturally than at any other point in our national past. As a historian who has written and taught about the…

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150-Year-Old School District To Change Its Name Because Of Confederacy Reference

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Neetu Chandak Republish Reprint School board members voted Tuesday to change the name of a 150-year-old California school district because of a Confederacy reference. Dixie School District’s (DSD) name change cost is around $40,000, according to The Associated Press Wednesday. The name change would go into effect Aug. 22. Dixie was a nickname for southern U.S. states…