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The Civil War and Reconstruction was a pivotal era in American history.

When a war was fought to save the Union and to free the slaves,

and when the work to rebuild the nation after that war was over

turned into a struggle to guarantee liberty and justice for all Americans. I'm

I'm Tracey and I'm rich and we want to invite you to join us as we take an in-depth look at this

pivotal era in American history.

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You know, over the 31 years since I first started researching and writing these useless information stories,

I've always done my best to avoid controversy.

What that means is that I generally avoid topics like current politics, I avoid religion,

and I really do my best to keep my personal opinions to a bare minimum.

And without a doubt there have been occasional moments where I've offended someone, but overall

I'd say things have gone fairly smoothly. But one exception to this is a story that I

released back in June of 2020 and it was titled The Child Bride. Now just

to summarize it quickly it's the 1937 story in which 9 year old

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