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On the evening of April 14, 1865, the actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth leaped onto the stage at Ford’s Theater and shouted “Sic semper tyrannis!”, followed by “The South is avenged!” Booth had just fatally shot President Lincoln. He was acting as part of a larger conspiracy to decapitate the Lincoln administration and was the only conspirator to successfully carry out any part of the overall plan — a plot that had been initiated by Booth, not the Confederate government.
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Very interesting. I haven’t read any works by Dunning (though I hope to in the future). I did not know he was a Yankee. I attended a lecture on Reconstruction by Kermit Roosevelt III (Teddy’s great-grandson) who is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Roosevelt is a committed liberal who vehemently despises the Confederacy and harshly criticized Dunning on the grounds that he was too sympathetic to the South. According to Roosevelt, the problem with Reconstruction was that it didn’t go far enough. Needless to say, I don’t share his opinion.
I’m looking forward to the next two parts.
Fantastic essay.
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