Our democracy is an evolving machine. The machine was built by a small group of people who were all men and looked the same. Over time the strength of American society is that it has grown and become more diverse and become very different. Our democracy has in an inefficient, episodic way been able to adjust and been able to at least account for some of that. But it hasn't done that in about a generation, and it's long time we do that.

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Jeremi Suri is the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He cohosts the podcast This is Democracy with his son Zachary. His latest book is Civil War By Other Means: America’s Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy.

Key Highlights

• Introduction - 0:50
• Reconstruction and American Democracy - 3:21
• Contradictions in American Reconstruction - 15:25
• How Reconstruction Era Issues Shape Democracy Today - 23:25
• Democracy and Political Reform - 32:18

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