The Day a Nation Was Born to Die - February 4, 1861
On February 4th, 1861, delegates from six Southern states met in Montgomery, Alabama, to create the Confederate States of America. Were they fighting over tariffs and trade? States' rights? Or slavery? Richard Backus goes back to the primary sources, the secession declarations, the Confederate Cons…
Lincoln's First Inaugural
A nation is splitting, nerves are raw, and a new president steps onto the stage with a lawyer’s caution and a moral compass fixed on first principles. We take you into Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural address to map the real conflict of 1861: not vague “states’ rights,” but whether slavery should …
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
March 21, 2026
On March 21, 1861 Senator Alexander Stephens delivered his Cornerstone Speech, In the Cornerstone Speech he described a Confederate government based on racial enslavement, Stephens expected the new doctrine of the Confederacy to spread around the world, Abraham Lincoln rejected the …
Founding an Empire: Maritime Glasgow and the Clan Line
This episode continues our mini series on the history of the Clan Line, one of the most prominent and enduring British shipping companies of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Founded in Glasgow in 1878 by Sir Charles Cayzer, the line began with a small fleet of steamships and quickly grew int…
Ben Rhodes: All We Say, The Battle for American Identity
What does it mean to be American? Who gets to decide?
Americans have debated those questions for 250 years. The issue of what it means to be an American shaped the compromises in the Constitution and the arguments we’ve been having ever since—spawning abolitionism, secession, and civil war; popul…
The Battle for American Identity (w/ Ben Rhodes)
What can the great political speeches of the past teach us about the moment we’re living through today? Pod Save the World host and author of All We Say: The Battle for American Identity, Ben Rhodes joins Stacey Abrams to trace the history of civil rights in America through the words of some of t…
Was the Civil War Really About States Rights?
Was the Civil War fought over slavery or states' rights? Today we’ll examine the primary sources: the secession declarations of South Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, and Texas, the ordinances of the other Confederate states, Alexander Stephens's Cornerstone Speech, Jefferson Davis's own words to th…
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