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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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