Episode
The Remarkable Thing Is that It Took This Long for Crisis to Come
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- Skipped History
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- Feb 19, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 615
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.com Today, Jon Meacham explains why American history is a perennial struggle—and why that struggle is not the work of a day (though it’d be really nice if it were). In American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union , Meacham assembles what he calls “the Star Wars bar scene of American History”: an anthology of documents from Fr…