Posted On: 08/24/2016 10:55:20 PM
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Sorry, but you've fallen for the ahistorical argument that has been repudiated by most historians. J.S. Mill also disagrees....with you.
I understand and agree with your disdain for tariffs, but as a primary cause of the Civil War you are the hammer to whom the whole world is a nail.
How bad does an argument need to be for Forbes to pull it down from their website?
I suspect many of the historians who drove it off the web site with their counter arguments were 'dumb ass northerners' too.
I understand and agree with your disdain for tariffs, but as a primary cause of the Civil War you are the hammer to whom the whole world is a nail.
How bad does an argument need to be for Forbes to pull it down from their website?
I suspect many of the historians who drove it off the web site with their counter arguments were 'dumb ass northerners' too.
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Accordingly, the sesquicentennial of the Civil War has witnessed a slew of ahistorical tariff-centered explanations for the conflict’s causation, articles like “Protective Tariffs: The Primary Cause of the Civil War,” which appeared in Forbes Magazine in June 2013.
Although the article was quickly pulled from the Forbes website following a rapid response from historians on Twitter (#twitterstorians), this particular piece of tariff fiction still exists on the author’s website as well as in a local Virginia newspaper, the Daily Progress.[1]
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