#354 – Jeremi Suri: American Civil War

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the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click
the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (06:45)
- Revolutions and governments (24:23) - American Civil War (33:35)
- Lincoln and election of 1860 (37:25) - Slavery (50:35) - Freedom
of speech (1:02:17) - Death toll of the Civil War (1:05:36) -
Ulysses S. Grant (1:07:45) - Ku Klux Klan (1:19:27) - Robert E. Lee
(1:27:11) - Abraham Lincoln (1:42:18) - If the south won (1:50:54)
- Hypocrisy of the Founders (1:56:56) - John Wilkes Booth (2:00:11)
- White supremacy (2:05:34) - Disputed elections (2:15:56) -
Politics (2:24:20) - Donald Trump and Joe Biden (2:37:06) - January
6th (3:02:04) - Hope for the future