In this episode, we explore from civil war to global empire. All right, so picture this. It is 1861, and American politicians are desperately debating this thing called the Corwin Amendment. Right. And they are attempting to literally enshrine slavery into the United States Constitution forever, just to appease the South and avoid a war. Which obviously does not work. Exactly. It didn't work. But then, jump forward just 38 years, Americans are suddenly riding underground in the newly built Boston subway, and they're fighting an overseas war in the Philippines. So the fundamental question we have today is how do you completely overwrite a nation's DNA in just 40 years? Yeah, to truly understand the modern United States, its political institutions, its borders, its global posture, and even its ongoing internal frictions, you really have to examine the ...