Did All Chicagoans Support The Civil War?
In this week’s episode we revisit a question we first answered in 2018. What was Chicago’s response to the Civil War? Chicagoans support for the war was actually quite varied and changed as the war progressed. To answer the question we focus on the exper
January 14, 202116m 23s
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<p><b>In this week’s episode we revisit a question we first answered in 2018. <i>What was Chicago’s response to the Civil War? </i>Chicagoans support for the war was actually quite varied and changed as the war progressed. To answer the question we focus on the experience of Irish Americans and African-Americans and look at how the war went from popular to controversial in Chicago in just a few years. </b><br></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CuriousCityPodcast/~4/NPDAXHim2J8" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>