#251 - Civil War, Comanche Terror, Ku Klux Klan & America's Most Violent Era | Tore Olsson

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Tore Olsson is a historian of the United States since the Civil War. His most recent book, Red Dead’s History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America’s Violent Past highlights is an exploration of American violence between 1870 and 1920.

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OUTLINE

00:00- Real history in Red Dead Redemption 2

09:36- The real Pinkerton’s

17:25- The era that defined America

22:20- Native American Indian wars

29:54- Lincoln's REAL view on slavery

41:30- Florida's untold history

45:45- Jim Crow

47:59- Segregation in the south

53:52- Civil war guerilla warfare tactics

56:24- Nathan Bedford Forrest

01:08:46- Confederate statues

01:20:34- Critical race theory

01:27:06- The boom & bust of the KKK

01:35:42- Next civil war?

01:38:47- Class & capitalism

01:45:22- U.S. & Mexico

02:00:48- Why race is a social construct

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