Stephen Dubner
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Apparently.
And it was worthless, but people tried to say, like, I'll give you five Confederate dollars for, like, 25 cents.
And some people would take it.
Is that right?
I know nothing about this.
That's when it started.
Teach me more.
No, that was that.
I'm embarrassed to say this.
I've never really known all that much about the U.S.
Civil War, which I feel kind of silly about as an American who likes history well enough and, you know, medium smart person.
But lately I've been reading about it in kind of sideways ways.
And it just felt like one of those things you have to know everything about it.
And you learn it in school.
And then Ken Burns said...
this, which was a lot to absorb, and I didn't absorb it all.
I absorbed the emotional highlights, maybe.