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Blood and Union

Blood and Union Podcast

Unraveling the war that tore America apart — and still shapes us today. Blood and Union is a deep-dive history podcast exploring the American Civil War in all its complexity. Across multiple seasons, we uncover the causes, battles, leaders, and legacies of the conflict that defined a nation. From the compromises of the Founding Fathers to the fields of Gettysburg, from the heroism of the 54th Massachusetts to the failures of Reconstruction, we bring you the real stories — detailed, dramatic, and

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S2Ep1: Bleeding Kansas: When the Republic Learned to...

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2026/01/15

In 1854, Congress passed a law meant to quiet the nation.Instead, it taught Americans how to kill each other. This episode opens Season Two by plunging into the chaos unleashed by the Kansas–Nebraska Act — a political experiment that handed the future of slavery to popular vote and discovered, too late, that ballots could be enforced with bullets. Kansas became a battleground before it became a state. Armed Missourians crossed borders to steal elections. Free-State settlers fortified cabins and

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Episode 8: Prelude to Kansas, Tensions Boil, and the...

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2025/11/14

Before the storm of the Civil War, there was Kansas.In this sweeping season finale, Blood and Union traces the final unraveling of America’s fragile peace — from the death of compromise in Washington to the bloody birth of the frontier. We follow the Cody family into the Salt Creek Valley, where Isaac Cody’s abolitionist beliefs spark tragedy and shape the boy who would become Buffalo Bill. We meet the native nations who first called Kansas home — the Kansa, the Pawnee, and the Delaware — and learn

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Episode 7: Political Polarization – Whigs, Democrats,...

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2025/11/06

In this episode of Blood and Union, we trace America’s political unraveling through the 1850s — a decade of collapsing parties, rising movements, and moral awakening.From the death of the Whigs and the ascent of the Democrats, to the birth of the Free Soil and Know-Nothing movements, we uncover how fear, faith, and ideology reshaped the nation long before the first shots of the Civil War. Discover how the Whigs’ dream of compromise gave way to the Democrats’ illusion of unity, how Free Soilers and

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Episode 6: A Fragile Balance: The Compromise of 1850...

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2025/10/28

The Mexican-American War expanded America’s borders — but it also cracked its soul. In 1850, Washington’s elder statesmen tried to stitch the nation back together with words: Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster… and a rising Mississippi senator named Jefferson Davis. Their Compromise was supposed to save the Union — instead, it shackled it.In this immersive episode, Jeffrey Newman takes you inside the fevered debates of Congress, the fury of the Fugitive Slave Act, and the secret world of

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Episode 5: A Nation Unbound: The Mexican War and the...

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2025/10/21

The Mexican-American War made America an empire — and fractured its soul.In this sweeping chapter of Blood and Union, host Jeffrey Newman traces the nation’s march from Texas independence through the fires of Manifest Destiny to the uneasy peace of the Compromise of 1850. It was a war born of ambition and pride — waged by men who believed God had given them the continent, and paid for by those left beneath its shadow. From Polk’s provocation and Santa Anna’s defiance, to the cries of conscience in

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Two Americas: Industry and Agrarian Might

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2025/10/14

By the 1840s, the United States was no longer one nation — it was two, bound by commerce but divided by conscience. In this sweeping episode, Blood and Union journeys through the rise of industry in the North and the cotton empire of the South, tracing how progress and oppression grew side by side.From the roar of the Lowell mills to the hush of Southern plantations, we explore the machinery, money, and moral contradictions that defined an age. Voices like Sarah Bagley, Thomas Jefferson, and John

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Episode 3: Rebellion and Resistance: Nat Turner and...

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2025/10/03

In August 1831, Nat Turner led the deadliest slave uprising in American history. His rebellion terrified the South, electrified the North, and reshaped America’s laws. In this episode of Blood and Union, Jeffrey Newman tells the story of Turner’s visions, the rebellion’s bloody two days, his trial and execution, and the nationwide crackdown that followed. We also explore other revolts—from Gabriel Prosser to the Amistad—and ask: did Turner’s rebellion do more harm than good, or did it reveal the

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The Cotton Kingdom

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2025/09/29

Episode 2 – King Cotton & the Triumvirate: Power, Politics, and DivisionIn the wake of the War of 1812, America entered a new era — one defined by cotton, conflict, and compromise. Eli Whitney’s cotton gin revolutionized the economy, but instead of easing labor, it deepened the chains of slavery and fueled the rise of the Cotton Kingdom. In this episode of Blood and Union, host Jeffrey Newman unpacks: How the War of 1812 disrupted trade and ignited a domestic textile boom. The mechanics and

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Founding Contradictions: Slavery in Republic of Liberty

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2025/09/23

Before the first shots at Fort Sumter, the Civil War was already brewing in America’s founding ideals. How could a nation declare that “all men are created equal” while holding nearly half a million people in bondage? In this debut episode, host Jeffrey Newman explores: The national scope of slavery, from Rhode Island’s slave voyages to Southern plantations. The compromises of the Constitution — from the Three-Fifths Clause to the Fugitive Slave Act. The growing socio-economic divide between

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