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BREAKING NATION
Coming 2024
When the political system of compromise that had served the United States for decades utterly and epically fails to deal with slavery at a national level, the mid-nineteenth century leaders of the nation and states must choose where their loyalties lie.
Will they save their way of life and solve the sins of cruel bondage before the land and its people are torn apart and shredded by violence and prejudice?
When Abraham Lincoln takes the oath of office as the sixteenth President on March 4, 1861, he faces a crisis unlike any other faced by his predecessors.
The country is on the brink of breaking as a nation…
Breaking Nation, A Civil War Podcast will take you on a revelatory and surprising journey through the years of the American Civil War, as if you had no idea how the events surrounding you would play out.
History never looks like history when you're living through it.
– John Gardner
A lifetime of study has driven host Scott Holmgren back to the refining furnace of the American Civil War to discover the stories, the triumphs and tragedies, and the lessons to be learned from an America both very different and very similar to our own. Join him for a journey into the past to unearth wisdom for the present through BREAKING NATION.
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