What America Can Overcome with Greg Jackson
Are our current political divisions actually unprecedented? In this episode of In Pursuit, Colleen sits down with Dr. Greg Jackson, host of the top-10 history podcast History That Doesn’t Suck, to discuss his new book "Been There, Done That" and what history teaches us about overcoming national crises.
From hyper-partisan newspaper wars in the 1790s and the brutal mudslinging of the 1828 election, to the shocking political violence of the caning of Charles Sumner, Greg reminds us that the American republic has stared into the abyss before—and chosen to bounce back.
