Ep. 50: Bruce Levine on Thaddeus Stevens and the Relevance of History

Luke talks with Bruce Levine about his book, Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice. The conversation covers several topics, including Bruce’s political development, the history of Vermont and the state’s influence on Stevens, the Civil War and Stevens’s ceaseless struggle during Reconstruction, and what Stevens, the Civil War, and Reconstruction can teach the Left.