Skip to content
Opinion

America’s divides have never been simple. Neither was Pennsylvania’s Civil War history. | Opinion

Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, like other Northern states, were not innocent of profiting from slavery.

This photograph of a Confederate veteran in United Confederate Veterans shaking hands with a Union veteran at a 1913 reunion of the Battle of Gettysburg is called "All enmity forgotten," spreading a message of postwar unity that's just one of many false narratives spread about the Civil War. A black-and-white cultural divide between north and south is another.
This photograph of a Confederate veteran in United Confederate Veterans shaking hands with a Union veteran at a 1913 reunion of the Battle of Gettysburg is called "All enmity forgotten," spreading a message of postwar unity that's just one of many false narratives spread about the Civil War. A black-and-white cultural divide between north and south is another.Read moreLibrary of Congress
    by Jason Steinhauer, for the Inquirer
    Published