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Crosscut Ideas Festival
The Purpose of Power
The co-founder of #blacklivesmatter on how to fight for a better, more equitable future.
How the South Won the Civil War
Journalists, politicians, authors and newsmakers from around the world come together at the Crosscut Ideas Festival to take a hard look at the people, policy and events that shape our lives.
How the South Won the Civil War
Season 1 Episode 4 | 26m 2s | CC
While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in her new book, How the South Won the Civil War, that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral. The system, which had sustained the defeated South, continued, and inequality and subordination was woven into the nation's fabric and identity.
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