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Origin of Everything
Why Are There SO Many Confederate Monuments?
Season 2
Episode 25
Origin of Everything takes a field trip to Washington, D.C. and explores the painful history and legacy of America's Civil War. Danielle looks at Confederate and Union Civil War monuments and what spurred their construction after the war.
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