Hinge Points Episode 3: Reconstructing Reconstruction

Matt and Danny Bessner, from the American Prestige podcast, explore one of history's most important hinge points: the American Civil War, when the United States decided to fully embrace the northern form of industrial capitalism, setting the stage for hemispheric and eventually global expansion. Matt and Danny discuss a multitude of issues, from the various crises of the pre-Civil War era to the war's diplomacy to one of the great "What If" questions: namely, what if Benjamin Butler, not Andrew Johnson, had been Lincoln's Vice President, and how might this have informed Reconstruction's direction? Get bonus content on Patreon

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