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kleinbl00 · 933 days ago · link · · parent · post: Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows
I've been meaning to get through the Ken Burns. What's been holding me back is a lot of the scholarship since has been about what a terribly romantic notion we have about the South, how a lot of that is because of Shelby Foote, and how heavily Ken Burns leans on Shelby Foote. So long as you're doing that, I wholeheartedly recommend W.E.B. DuBois' Black Reconstruction in America. It is breathtaking. It is extraordinarily difficult (at least as a white dude). And it is a towering achievement in literature. I've basically been letting Kamil Galeev push me around lately. Wallerstein came from this thread: