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By Hugh Howard July 10 at 8:09 PM
Hugh Howard is the author of “Houses of Civil War America.”
With astonishing speed — and a surprising new consensus — the status of the Confederate battle flag has been altered. While a reconsideration of that symbol’s original meaning is long overdue, there is a countervailing risk that the righteous satisfaction in some quarters at lowering the flag may blind us to another large misunderstanding of the past.
More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...9b050aa_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions&wpmm=1h
Hugh Howard is the author of “Houses of Civil War America.”
With astonishing speed — and a surprising new consensus — the status of the Confederate battle flag has been altered. While a reconsideration of that symbol’s original meaning is long overdue, there is a countervailing risk that the righteous satisfaction in some quarters at lowering the flag may blind us to another large misunderstanding of the past.
More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...9b050aa_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions&wpmm=1h