Robert E. Lee Was America’s Most Gallant, Decorated Traitor
History Unplugged Podcast
History Unplugged
4.2 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 1:00.5 | He says, Session is revolution. There's no constitutional mechanism for Session. Session simply is outright revolution. It's a radical break with the Constitution. |
| 1:12.5 | And it's going to be followed, he says, by war and can't be otherwise. |
| 1:16.5 | So even Robert E. Lee was not under any illusions that somehow what the Confederacy was doing was something that the founders would have sanctioned in the Constitution. |
| 1:29.5 | The United States never was. Some kind of voluntary federation of states like the UN. |
| 1:48.5 | History is in just a bunch of names and dates and facts. It's the collection of all the stories throughout human history that explain how and why we got here. |
| 1:56.5 | Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast where we look at the forgotten, neglected, strange, and even counterfactual stories that made our world what it is. I'm your host, Scott Rank. |
| 2:12.5 | For somebody who was born 200 years ago, Robert E. Lee is in the news quite a bit. |
| 2:17.5 | In 2017, there was deadly violence that erupted around the Robert E. Lee monument in Charlottesville, Virginia over a protest on removing that monument. |
| 2:26.5 | In Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy, another statue of his was taken down at the historic monument avenue. |
| 2:33.5 | Opponents of Lee will say that number one, the statues came up not immediately after his life, but during the period of Jim Crow law and their more of a symbol of the Salis embracing its heritage, much of which is racist. |
| 2:47.5 | Whereas his supporters will say that Lee was the embodiment of Southern chivalry and almost a part of the American aristocracy. |
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