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    A NUANCED AND COMPLEX WAR

    Sep 24, 2019 3 minutes
    BY RICHARD ERNSBERGER JR.

    hristy Coleman is chief executive of the American Civil War Museum in Richmond, Virginia. That facility resulted in 2013 from the merger of the Museum of the Confederacy and the American Civil War Center at the Historic Tredegar Iron Works, also in that city. Coleman, who had headed the latter since 2008, earlier held senior positions with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and was president and CEO of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, Michigan.

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