Carl Schurz's "A Look Back at 1848, 1907"

Read this excerpt from a memoir by Carl Schurz, a German revolutionary in 1848 who later immigrated to the United States and became a general in the Civil War. Note how Schurz describes the excitement sweeping through Europe following the Revolution in France.

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