History,  Stateside

Two Thanksgivings

It seems that even on Thanksgiving 150 years ago, the liberal-media elite– like the artist Winslow Homer in Harper’s Weekly— were engaged in what today’s Republicans call class warfare and the politics of envy.

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(Via the New York Times blog Disunion, which is “using contemporary accounts, diaries, images and historical assessments to follow the Civil War as it unfolded” a century and a half ago.)