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Tore Olsson is a historian of the United States since the Civil War. His most recent book, Red Dead’s History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America’s Violent Past highlights is an exploration of American violence between 1870 and 1920.

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OUTLINE

00:00 - Real history in Red Dead Redemption 2

09:36 - The real Pinkerton’s

17:25 - The era that defined America

22:20 - Native American Indian wars

29:54 - Lincoln's REAL view on slavery

41:30 - Florida's untold history

45:45 - Jim Crow

47:59 - Segregation in the south

53:52 - Civil war guerilla warfare tactics

56:24 - Nathan Bedford Forrest

01:08:46 - Confederate statues

01:20:34 - Critical race theory

01:27:06 - The boom & bust of the KKK

01:35:42 - Next civil war?

01:38:47 - Class & capitalism

01:45:22 - U.S. & Mexico

02:00:48 - Why race is a social construct

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