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Bloody Destructive Terminology

The History Detectives Team | October 19, 2009 October 19, 2009 | 0 Responses

Broad River.jpgCan the mass deaths of Native Americans at the hands of Europeans be considered genocide? Was John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry an act of terrorism? The language used to qualify historical conflicts invariably shapes our perceptions of them. A couple of lines from our Civil War pontoon bridge story caught the ear of University of Mississippi History Professor John F. Marszalek who writes:

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