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Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union
Democracy’s strange compromise
Experts discuss how the American Revolution united the states against the common enemy of the British monarchy, versus how Abraham Lincoln’s election and the Civil War brought our democracy and the nation to its brink. “They didn't claim that Lincoln hadn't really won and had stolen the votes,” says Eric Foner. “They just said, we don't accept this.”
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Follow the pursuit of democracy from the Revolutionary War through recurring cycles of...