He’s right! I wrote a whole dang book about it! Connections to today is what motivated me to write it, and the concluding chapter discusses the parallels to today. www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...
Cambridge Core - American Studies - With Ballots and Bullets
One thing that I've been thinking about is how today's rise in White Supremacist ideology mirrors what we saw in the lead up to the Civil War during the 1840s and 50s. I don't think we're going to have another civil war (for a lot of reasons), but there are a ton of parallels. 1/x
