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Juneteenth

...and the Fifth of July

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Mashing up two old holiday posts, from June 19, 2022, and July 5, 2023:

Juneteenth engraving by Thomas Nast. ca. 1865, via American Civil War Museum.

Just thinking about the degree to which the Juneteenth celebration might, now that it's a national holiday, be a commemoration of what historian Eric Foner called the Second Founding, following on the Civil …

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