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How the Civil War changed how we vote
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:16:23
Publish Date: 2026-02-24 08:05:00
Description: When President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in the middle of the Civil War, he was not just changing the terms of peace, he was risking his own political future and forcing the nation to confront what its democracy really stood for. On this week’s episode, how the presidential election of 1864 changed the way we vote and who we are as a country.


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