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