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Today in Slate: Why Rep. Weiner's Stupid, Sexless Sex Scandal Still Matters; Plus, What I Learned While Freelancing at Cosmopolitan

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Meetless Weiner

Meetless Weiner

If Anthony Weiner never met his online girlfriends in the flesh, does that mean he didn't cheat?

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Welcome to the Internet, Steve

Welcome to the Internet, Steve

Does the release of iCloud mean Apple finally gets the Web?

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Orgasm Guaranteed

Orgasm Guaranteed

What I learned while freelancing at Cosmopolitan.

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Ignore the Hysteria Over German E. coli

Ignore the Hysteria Over German E. coli

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Why Rep. Weiner's Stupid, Sexless Sex Scandal Still Matters

Why Rep. Weiner's Stupid, Sexless Sex Scandal Still Matters

Help! The Kids of the Woman I Bullied Are Now Bullying My Kids.

Help! The Kids of the Woman I Bullied Are Now Bullying My Kids.

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Today's Cartoon: A Sudden, Conspicuous Silence

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Culturebox: Thanks a Lot, Ken Burns

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Because of you, my Civil War lecture is always packed--with students raised on your sentimental, romantic, deeply misleading portrait of the conflict.
By James M. Lundberg
Posted Tuesday, June 7, 2011, at 7:03 AM ET

Still from Ken Burn's 'The Civil War' Documentary.Whenever I teach a course on the American Civil War I see a spike in the number of students eager to spend three hours a week with me. This would be flattering if it had anything to do with my particular talents as a teacher. But as I hear the pleas of wait-listed supplicants begging for spots in my class, I am reminded that I owe my popularity to the documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and his legendary series The Civil War.

I listen to students tell me how much they love the film with a certain measure of dread. I know from experience that notions about the war's transcendent meaning forged in the sentimental fires of the film make it harder to talk about the conflict in all of its complexity. And I know that no matter how much I work on my Shelby Foote impression, I can never possibly live up to the real thing.

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James M. Lundberg is assistant professor of History at Sacred Heart University.

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