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Coins, Currency & American History

Ep. 18 – A Nation Divided

May 01, 2026 Season 1 Episode 18

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The decade before the Civil War is often described as a political crisis. But the 1850s were also an economic crisis, a cultural crisis and a crisis of imagination. North, South and West each had opposing visions of the future – and believed the others misunderstood America’s promise...

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