FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message A battlefield victory does not guarantee control of the story. We trace how the Confederacy lost the war but captured American memory through textbooks, monuments, and movies, turning slavery into “states’ rights,” treason into tragic romance, and Robert E. Lee into a spotless icon. Using the secession documents themselves, we dismantle the core claims of the Lost Cause and show how Reconstruction briefly expanded freedom before a ...
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FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message A battlefield victory does not guarantee control of the story. We trace how the Confederacy lost the war but captured American memory through textbooks, monuments, and movies, turning slavery into “states’ rights,” treason into tragic romance, and Robert E. Lee into a spotless icon. Using the secession documents themselves, we dismantle the core claims of the Lost Cause and show how Reconstruction briefly expanded freedom before a ...
MM#433--The Forgotten Toll: Civilian Deaths in WWII
Theory 2 Action Podcast
24 minutes
2 months ago
MM#433--The Forgotten Toll: Civilian Deaths in WWII
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message The staggering scale of World War II's devastation remains difficult to comprehend even decades later. In just six years and one day, humanity's deadliest conflict claimed between 60-65 million lives—roughly 3% of the world's 1939 population and more deaths than occurred in three centuries of warfare combined. Drawing from Victor Davis Hanson's masterful "The Second World Wars," this episode explores the uncomfortable truth that m...
Theory 2 Action Podcast
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message A battlefield victory does not guarantee control of the story. We trace how the Confederacy lost the war but captured American memory through textbooks, monuments, and movies, turning slavery into “states’ rights,” treason into tragic romance, and Robert E. Lee into a spotless icon. Using the secession documents themselves, we dismantle the core claims of the Lost Cause and show how Reconstruction briefly expanded freedom before a ...
