Is America Willing to Tell the Truth About Its History? [nytimes.com]
By Tish Harrison Warren, Illustration: Matija Medved, The New York Times, November 14, 2021 I don’t remember the first time I was taught that the Civil War was not fought because of slavery. I am a white Texan, so this idea was simply in the ether, as were myths about “good slave owners” and the “Lost Cause.” I knew that America had a racist history, but when I was a child, the details of what that meant were blurry and vague. This experience is common. There is objective truth to our...