Civil War still haunts American attitudes toward democracy
October 28, 2025
October 28, 2025
ITHACA, New York, Oct. 28 -- Cornell University posted the following news:
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Civil War still haunts American attitudes toward democracy
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Talking about ghosts - both warding them off and inviting their return - makes for compelling storytelling, scholar Shirley Samuels writes in " Haunted by the Civil War: Cultural Testimony in the Nineteenth-Century United States." The chill of hearing or seeing a ghost, she writes, "mingles . . .
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Civil War still haunts American attitudes toward democracy
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Talking about ghosts - both warding them off and inviting their return - makes for compelling storytelling, scholar Shirley Samuels writes in " Haunted by the Civil War: Cultural Testimony in the Nineteenth-Century United States." The chill of hearing or seeing a ghost, she writes, "mingles . . .