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#444--From Tammany Hall To Today: The Long Shadow Over New York’s Mayor’s Race
Theory 2 Action Podcast
23 minutes
3 weeks ago
MM#444--From Tammany Hall To Today: The Long Shadow Over New York’s Mayor’s Race
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message New York stands at a crossroads where history hums beneath every headline. We open the archive on the city’s most contentious mayors—Boss Tweed’s machine, Fernando Wood’s secession gambit, Oakey Hall’s complicity, and Jimmy Walker’s glamour-soaked graft—to understand how power, patronage, and public appetite shaped what’s possible in City Hall. That backdrop sharpens the stakes of today’s race, where frontrunner Zoran Mandani pitch...
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 ...
