Season 2, Episode 2: Heather Cox Richardson: How the South Won the Civil War

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Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Heather Cox Richardson,
renowned historian and author of How the South Won the
Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the
Soul of America in which Richardson argues that while the
North prevailed in the American Civil War, ending slavery and
giving the country a “new birth of freedom,” democracy’s
blood-soaked victory was ephemeral.


Together, they discuss the myth that the Civil War released
the US from the grip of oligarchy and the competing claims of
equality and subordination woven into the nation's fabric and
identity.


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Footnotes:



Colonial America


Otto Ecktein


American Civil War


Oligarchy


Declaration of Independence


Edmund Morgan


“All Men are Created Equal”


Confederate States of America


January 6 2021 Insurrection


Democracy


Right Wing Politics


InfoWars


Demagogue


FCC Fairness Doctrine


Facebook Algorithm Regulation


The True Believer; Eric Hoffer


Authoritarianism


Indigenous People of the Americas


Westward Expansion



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