Civil War Historian Explains What Americans Still Get Wrong

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Civil War historian Kevin M. Levin joins the show to examine how the war has been remembered, distorted, and fought over for generations. We discuss the “states’ rights” argument, why non-slaveholding Southerners supported the Confederacy, the rise and violent collapse of Reconstruction, and whether removing Confederate monuments erases history—or changes who gets to define it. Civil War historian Kevin M. Levin joins the World XP Podcast to examine what Americans still misunderstand about the Civil War, slavery, Reconstruction, the Lost Cause, and Confederate monuments.

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Kevin’s Links:

Substack: https://kevinmlevin.substack.com/

Website: https://cwmemory.com/

Books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0070ZYOKU/allbooks?

Kevin M. Levin is a historian and educator based in Boston. He taught at the high school level for over twenty years and now writes full time about the history and memory of the Civil War era. Levin is the author of four books, including most recently, A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. You can find his online writing at his newsletter, Civil War Memory https://kevinmlevin.substack.com/

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