The War After The War

Rick Holmes, Winchester Star: Opinion
Sun, 07/15/2018 - 2:15am

Americans talk a lot about the Civil War, but not nearly enough about what happened in the years after. In history class, it’s “the Union won, Lincoln was shot, now let’s talk about the westward expansion.”Missing from these lessons is war after the war, a battle for racial equality that had to be fought again a century later and that still divides us.

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