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Minneapolis is Gettysburg? Tim Walz is Jeff Davis?
See our brief piece in The Conversation on why folks use the Civil War to make sense of current events.
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#CivilWar #Minneapolis #ICE
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From Gettysburg to Minneapolis: How the American Civil War continues to shape how we understand contemporary political conflicts and their dangers
As anger about the presence of ICE in Minneapolis divided the nation, Americans turned to the American Civil War for metaphors.
