#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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