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Did the American Civil War ever truly end?

On this episode of UnTextbooked, producer Arya Barkesseh interviews Dr. Jeremi Suri, who argues that opposition to the union army’s Civil War victory started almost immediately after the war ended, preventing Lincoln’s vision of a genuinely united country from actually taking root.

Season 3, Arya BarkessehUnTextbooked PodcastJanuary 12, 2023history, civil war, democracy, freedom, Jeremi Suri, abraham lincoln

Germany addressed its racist past. Can America do the same?

Germany’s reckoning with their Nazi past could give America a roadmap for dealing with our long history of racism. UnTextbooked Producer Lap Nguyen interviews Susan Neiman, author of Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil.