Uncivil

by Gimlet

America is divided, and it always has been. We're going back to the moment when that split turned into war. This is Uncivil: Gimlet Media's new history podcast, hosted by journalists Jack Hitt and Chenjerai Kumanyika. We ransack the official version of the Civil War, and take on the history you grew up with. We bring you untold stories about covert operations, corruption, resistance, mutiny, counterfeiting, antebellum drones, and so much more. And we connect these forgotten struggles to the political battlefield we’re living on right now.

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This is a great podcast to learn about factual history about slavery and the civil war from it’s beginnings to its impacts today. Also many recountings of modern and historical black perspectives.

DopeDrew03122001 · Feb 2024

Thank you for sharing these stories! This history is so impactful and important to know. These are the versions that need to be taught and understood by all of us. It’s amazing to have access to this perspective on history, it is definitely thought provoking. Im very grateful to have stumbled across this show.

Mrs Kitten · May 2022

The power of this podcast to fully grasp the history of slavery and how intentional we as white people have been in developing and nurturing it - in our laws and our narratives - can’t be underestimated. This should be part of every students US History lessons.

JeffEdm · Jun 2021

But you will learn that history from a totally different perspective here. It answers a lot of questions for me about why things are the way they are today. Every day I would listen to anew episode and retell my favorite parts to my family over dinner. I crave more episodes please!

MovieNerdette · May 2021

historical exaggerations are made to fit a political narrative. Many of the things they discuss did happen, but the impact and theater is dialed up to 11 in these “historical” re-enactments.

statedept1515 · Nov 2022

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