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This feels like it could have been written this year:
"There are still too many voices, particularly strong in an age of triumphal and coarse nationalism, that argue against the public representation of these “fishbone” stories. They open old wounds, some argue; they are evidence of contemporary historians’ hatred for America, transforming our sacred past into something dark and gloomy."
— Sep 26, 2021 08:04AM
"There are still too many voices, particularly strong in an age of triumphal and coarse nationalism, that argue against the public representation of these “fishbone” stories. They open old wounds, some argue; they are evidence of contemporary historians’ hatred for America, transforming our sacred past into something dark and gloomy."
