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Video: William A. Link talks to The Civil War Monitor

In an interview with The Civil War Monitor, William A. Link talks about the fall and rise of Atlanta as a New South city after the Civil War. Continue Reading Video: William A. Link talks to The Civil War Monitor

American History/Civil War/History

William A. Link: Atlanta Rising After Sherman

Atlanta’s white boosters embraced a new narrative about the city’s past which wiped clean the slaveholding past and adopted a message of openness to investment by northern capitalists Continue Reading William A. Link: Atlanta Rising After Sherman

African American Studies/American History/Author blog entry/Civil War/Guest Bloggers/History