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46: The Civil War Begins: Fort Sumter, Secession, & Raising Armies
“I hope to have God on my side, but I must have Kentucky.”
This is the story of the last, bare thread holding the Union together snapping. This is the…
6 years, 7 months ago
Volume IV Epilogue
"They are beautiful words, they are beautiful ideals... and there is beauty in seeing others as they make those words shift and close the gap towards…
6 years, 7 months ago
44: Abraham Lincoln Becomes President of the Divided States of America
“Mary, Mary, we are elected!”
This is the story of the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States … which means it’s also the stor…
6 years, 8 months ago
43: Honest Abe, the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, & John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry
“Any man who took Lincoln for a simple-minded man would wind up with his back in a ditch.”
This is the story of America on the eve of the Civil War. K…
6 years, 8 months ago
42: Solomon Northup’s 12 Years a Slave
“Master Bass, if justice had been done, I never would have been here.”
This is the story of betrayal. Restoration. Human trafficking. Daring selflessn…
6 years, 9 months ago
41: Kansas! (Bleeding Kansas, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, & Caning of Charles Sumner)
“We can send five thousand--enough to kill every God-damned abolitionist in the Territory.”
This is the story of the Civil War’s warm up. The States a…
6 years, 9 months ago
40: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention & the Explosion of Social Reform
“In the history of the world, the doctrine of Reform had never such scope as at the present hour.”
“Resolved, That woman is man’s equal.”
This is the s…
6 years, 10 months ago
39: The California Gold Rush and the Compromise of 1850
“The Union is doomed to dissolution. … I fix its probable occurrence within twelve years or three presidential terms.”
This is the story of statehood …
6 years, 10 months ago
38: The (Early) Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
“I am your fellow man, but not your slave, Frederick Douglass.”
This is the story of self-education, self-emancipation, overcoming adversity, bad and …
6 years, 11 months ago
37: La Amistad Slave Rebellion and the Rise of Abolitionism
“Give us free! Give us free!”
This is the story of a daring slave rebellion at sea and the long road to freedom. This is the story of La Amistad. It’s…
6 years, 11 months ago