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Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

GETTING CURIOUS | What Happened To The Racist F***ing A**hole Dick Officials Of The Confederacy After The Civil War? with Professor Robert Icenhauer-Ramirez

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

4.9 • 21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Lawyer, historian, and author Robert Icenhauer-Ramirez sits down with Jonathan to discuss the Civil War and its aftermath, including what happened to confederate officials, the process of abolishing slavery, Lincoln’s presidency, and much more. Professor Icenhauer-Ramirez's book “Treason on Trial: United States v. Jefferson Davis” exposes the legality behind why no one was held accountable for starting the Civil War. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to getting curious. I'm Jonathan Van Ness and every week I sit down for a 40 minute

0:04.9

conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.

0:09.6

On today's episode I'm joined by lawyer,, historian, author and lecturer at the University of Texas Austin,

0:16.2

Robert Eisenhower Ramirez, where I ask,

0:19.0

what happened to the racist fucking asshole dick officials of the American Confederacy after the end of the Civil War.

0:27.0

Welcome to Getting Curious. On today's episode, we have an incredible speaker, PhD lecture from the University of Texas at Austin, Robert Eisenhower.

0:37.0

Now, we're going to be covering a very interesting subject honey that is devastating

0:43.4

interesting slash I think there's a lot of things that we can glean from this

0:48.3

even now today because you know I think through history I just get really curious about how we how it still

0:56.8

affects us today. So the question is, what happened to all the generals of the Confederate states after the Civil War?

1:05.6

What?

1:07.6

Thank God you're an expert in that honey.

1:09.2

You're a historian and you are, and you have a PhD with an emphasis in the Civil War which that

1:15.2

qualifies you as a historian I guess right I mean you're oh yeah yeah my PhD

1:18.8

is hello yeah that's amazing so thanks so much Well, thank you for having me. You're our first Texas guest.

1:26.8

Oh, well, thank you. Yeah, you're my first getting curious. Oh, wait, actually, that's a full lie,

1:30.4

because I had Wendy Davis on when I was in Texas last time.

1:33.6

So you actually have my second, but that's an incredible person

1:35.9

to be second to.

1:37.4

I agree.

1:38.1

Right?

1:39.0

So, okay, so let's set the stage.

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