Word: curtis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reconstruction has been completely reinterpreted. Where Muzzey and many others castigated the "scalawags" and "carpetbaggers," a new edition of a bestselling history, the Lewis Paul Todd and Merle Curti Rise of the American Nation, speaks primly of "Radical Republicans" who were "influenced by a sincere feeling of obligation to the freed slaves." A few post-Viet Nam texts note the use of torture by U.S. soldiers in the Philippines in 1899, a subject never mentioned before...