Tag Archives: the confederacy

Interchange – Pushing Lincoln Left: Thaddeus Stevens as Revolutionary

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreBorn in poverty in rural Vermont, the Pennsylvania politician, Thaddeus Stevens, was among the first to see the Civil War as an opportunity for a second American revolution—a chance to remake the country as a true democracy which meant equal suffrage for all and more importantly the …

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Interchange – An Extended Conversation with Nancy Isenberg: Unfounded America

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:21:55 — 56.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreInterchange offers a no-frills, 80-minute conversation with White Trash author Nancy Isenberg–just she and I talking on the telephone. In this extended episode you’ll hear Isenberg’s take on the Broadway sensation Hamilton as well as more about the necessity of education to “unfound” our national myths to …

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