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Over the next five years, we will be observ­ing the sesqui­cen­ten­nial of the Civil War. On December 20, 1860, that is, 150 years ago, this week, for exam­ple, South Carolina seceded from the Union, touch­ing off a wave of seces­sions that led to the War itself.

While the war is

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