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Tom Zoellner

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Author of Island on Fire, Train & more. Journalist at @SPIN. Work in @TheAtlantic, @Harpers. Prof. Writing on politics, history & the American landscape.

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The Side That Won the Civil War is Now Banning Books About Why the Civil War Was Fought

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By Tom Zoellner
| Literary Hub
In the days before the Civil War, the South worked hard to censor any literature that cast slavery in a negative light. Officials in Charleston, S.C. went through mailbags for abolitionist newspapers. Legislatures passed laws banning any publication that may show “a tendency to make our slaves discontented.” In Maryland, the Rev. Jacob Gruber was prosecuted for daring to preach a sermon that hinted that slavery might be sinful.
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The Side That Won the Civil War is Now Banning Books About Why the Civil War Was Fought

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By Tom Zoellner
| Flipboard
6 hours ago To be a true person is to be entirely oneself in every circumstance, with all the courage and vulnerability this requires. And yet because a person is a confederacy of parts often at odds and sometimes at war with each other, being true is not a pledge to be a paragon of cohesion, predictable and …
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The world has got uranium poisoning Nuclear power is no panacea

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By Tom Zoellner
| UnHerd
Still from the TV series Chernobyl 2019. (YouTube) IranNet Zeronuclear energyuranium For a substance that could end most life on the planet, highly enriched uranium looks disappointingly bland. The finished metal pellets might be mistaken for a collection of old bottle caps or a bunch of grayish pipe components, such as might be found in a drawer at the corner hardware store. It does not glow. It has only a faint radioactive signature and can be handled with ordinary gloves.
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