Gary Gallagher: American Civil War, Slavery, Lincoln, Grant & Lee | Lex Fridman Podcast #499

Gary Gallagher is a historian of the American Civil War.
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The Confederate War (book): https://amzn.to/4yletel
The Union War (book): https://amzn.to/3QT1jED
Lee and His Generals in War and Memory (book): https://amzn.to/4fdrbD5
Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten (book): https://amzn.to/4wFxk1X
The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History (book): https://amzn.to/4vsAogU
The Great Courses – The American Civil War: https://bit.ly/4gDX3mQ

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*OUTLINE:*
0:00 – Episode highlight
1:29 – Introduction
1:52 – What caused the Civil War?
11:49 – Slavery
39:23 – Lincoln
54:19 – Grant vs Lee
1:03:13 – Could the Civil War have been avoided?
1:12:39 – The bloodiest war in US history
1:29:47 – How the Confederate Army could've won
1:50:22 – Key battles of the Civil War
2:13:23 – Best and Worst Presidents
2:27:23 – Robert E. Lee
2:46:56 – The most important battle of the Civil War
2:57:07 – The final showdown of the Civil War – Grant vs Lee
3:19:26 – Lost Cause and Confederate Monuments
3:36:54 – Extreme political division in US

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