Aaron Sheehan-Dean

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American History Hit · What Made America? Victory in the Civil War · 22 Jun 2026 podcast

And so Confederates are surrendering knowing slavery is over forever.

Between that and his second inaugural, it's really... Yeah, exactly.

In thinking about Lincoln, we tend, I think, to underestimate the degree to which he really

anchored himself on the Declaration and on the creation of a perpetual union.

And this is where thinking about what things change and what things remain the same as a result of the Civil War comes into sharp focus because, you know, the beginning of that speech, as you started to quote it there, a nation dedicated, that Lincoln is speaking very explicitly to the fact that he sees a line of continuity, that the Civil War is in effect, and I'm going to use a kind of modern vernacular kind of stress test,

on this republic.

That there were plenty of people in 1776 that said, you can't create a republic of this size, of this heterogeneity.

You have people from Africa and you have people from Europe and you have indigenous people.

You have people from different religious backgrounds.

Almost immediately you have competing ideological positions.

That it's simply, you know, that the experiments in republics, places like San Marino in Italy,

had been tiny and tremendously homogenous and, you know, could claim old lineages.

But this was so much bigger on scale and ambition.

And many of them said that it just frankly will not work.

And we also, I think, need that listeners should remember the degree to which

in the early 19th century this is the era of the creation of nation states that it's not unusual people anticipate a kind of flux and dynamism there's a great line from sandy pendleton one of stonewall jackson's officers who's a young virginian who's

parents had been alive at the sort of tail end of the revolution.

And he's writing to his sister, has written to him saying, I would like to go to Richmond to see the inauguration, the official one of Jefferson Davis.

This happens in early 1862 when he's officially inaugurated.

And his parents won't let me take the train.

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