# The Remarkable Thing Is that It Took This Long for Crisis to Come

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Podcast: [Skipped History](https://stenobird.com/podcast/skipped-history-6825732)
Published: 2026-02-19T15:15:20+00:00
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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…

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