Well, howdy there internet people, let's Bow again and welcome to the roads with Bow.

Today we are going to talk about the roads to understanding a piece of American history that often gets debated.

But the thing is, there's no debate.

There is no actual debate about this.

People like to frame the discussion as an academic debate, but if you were going

to have an academic debate, you would need sources, and the first thing you would need is primary

sources. The only way to have a debate about this is

to ignore the primary sources. It's not a real debate, it's manufactured. And we're going to go

through this. You know, everybody has that one opinion about a subject and when they state it, people cringe.

It happens so often, there's memes about it on social media.

You know, what's your most unpopular opinion about X?

My most unpopular opinion about education is that we should teach the founding documents

of the Confederacy.

And normally when I say that people cringe because they hear that phrase in this accent and they make

an assumption.

I have never had anybody who heard me say that who then went and read the founding documents that maintained that

that opinion. The reason I think this is important is because well the discussion happens pretty often.

The debate occurs. What was the Civil War really about.

But we just had a candidate for president of the United States get asked what was the cause of the United States

Civil War and her response was don't come with an easy question, right?

I mean, I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was going to run,

the freedoms, and what people could and couldn't do.

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