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28 Jul 2026 Lex Fridman Podcast #499 – Gary Gallagher: American Civil War, Slavery, Lincoln, Grant & Lee
“I prefer to see this as a war between two mid-19th century republics, one of which didn’t last very long and spent its whole life in the midst of a great war.”
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- Gary Gallagher
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- 28 Jul 2026
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
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…And the North and the South is another way we’ll refer to it just to clarify. And let me have a very brief rant on North and South. I prefer to see this as a war between two mid-19th century republics, one of which didn’t last very long and spent its whole life in the midst of a great war. There were 15 slave-holding states in 1860. Only 11 of them seceded from the United States. Even though there’s 13 stars. We’ll talk about that.…
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