Re: John Bingham the Story of American Liberty

2003-09-24 Thread Judith Baer
It is perhaps unfair to say that Berger swallowed it whole. Well, Bryan, his negative remarks about Sumner, Stevens et al. were pure Southern-biased history. Judy Baer

Re: John Bingham the Story of American Liberty

2003-09-23 Thread Judith Baer
It has long been common knowledge among modern U.S. historians that the American memory and understanding of the Civil War and Reconstruction was basically taken over and distorted for many years by Southern and white-supremacist sympathizers. As late as 1977, Raoul Berger (GOVERNMENT BY