“You have Uncle Tom's Cabin earlier in the decade in 18-- and what... And the impact that that had on attitudes towards slavery. Doesn't create a bunch of”
Books mentioned in Gary Gallagher: American Civil War, Slavery, Lincoln, Grant & Lee | Lex Fridman Podcast #499
From Lex Fridman Podcast · 2026-07-28
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“listen to and haven't ever gotten around to reading. I did Moby Dick that way. - Mm-hmm. So the classics also?”
“Union War was trying to rescue something that I thought people just don't understand anymore, is what union meant to that generation. It makes more”
“read books. We should read Mein Kampf. We should read, Books that capture a certain moment in history, even if it's a hateful”
“I was gonna— that I assigned in the class was Huckleberry Finn. And a lot of the students said they wouldn't read Huckleberry Finn because they knew it had”