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THE CIVIL WAR DID NOT TAKE PLACE: Presidential Address 30 September 2000

Civil War?

"The American Civil War" did not take place. Now before you group me with the holocaust deniers and the flat earth crowd, I do not deny events such as the Battle of Gettysburg or the Emancipation Proclamation occurred in the real world. What I do deny, and emphatically so, is that the term "civil war" is either an accurate or useful way of describing one of the most important series of events in mid-nineteenth century American history. I reject the existence of the "Civil War" much as Jean Baudrillard (1995) denied the cleaned-up version of the Gulf War, presented by the media to American (USA) viewers in which almost no civilians supposedly suffered. In the case of the "Civil ...

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