HBO

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  9-5-17
  

  Historian comes out in defense of HBO’s counterfactual ‘Confederate’

  by Gavriel D. Rosenfeld

  By holding a mirror up to society and reflecting its aspirations and shortcomings, alternative histories can advance our national dialogue about the legacy of slavery and the Civil War, says Gavriel D. Rosenfeld.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8-4-17
  

  The Lost Cause Rides Again

  by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  HBO’s "Confederate" takes as its premise an ugly truth that black Americans are forced to live every day: What if the Confederacy wasn’t wholly defeated?

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• 8-13-17
  

  Why We Really Should Be Concerned About HBO’s New Series “Confederate”

  by James Thornton Harris

  What Herbert Marcuse would make of the show.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-20-17
  

  "Game of Thrones" creators sell show to HBO that imagines a world in which the Confederacy won

  Historians are worried.