Imagine a parallel universe where the only change was kids in school were taught that the American Civil War's bloodshed was started by memes?

Would we be where we are now?

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"During the American Civil War, illustrated journalism and cartoons in print media became available to the American public for the first time. “Many factors contributed to this sudden flowering: the growth of the population and the news market, the solving of many technological problems by men trained in English and American picture publishing, and an aroused popular attention to news events of national concern. Between 1855 and 1860 the American lithographing and engraving industries flourished, several illustrated comic weeklies, including Vanity Fair, began offering their cartoon wares to the public, and most significantly three enterprising publishers established weekly illustrated newspapers: Harper’s Weekly, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, and the New York Illustrated News” [1]. Illustrations about events going on in the world around them captivated American audiences, and they energetically embraced this new form of information. One result was that images alongside news stories were, for the first time, able to depict war as seen in the American Civil War."

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