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Podcast: History Unplugged Podcast
Episode: Robert E. Lee Was America’s Most Gallant, Decorated Traitor
Description: Robert E. Lee was one of the most confounding figures in American history. From Lee’s betrayal of his nation to defend his home state and uphold the slave system he claimed to oppose, to his traitorous actions against the country he swore to serve as an Army officer, to the ways he benefited from inherited slaves and fought to defend the institution of slavery despite considering slavery immoral, it’s a major undertaking to understand him in all his complexity.Today’s guest, Allen Guelzo, author of Robert E. Lee: A Life, describes the Virginian from his refine...