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Today's bitterly divided U.S. politics in historical context

3 historians on American political divisiveness -- and how to heal it

02/06/2020

PBS News Hour

Today's bitterly divided U.S. politics in historical context

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3 historians on American political divisiveness -- and how to heal it

The partisan results of President Trump’s Senate impeachment trial reinforced the political divisions characterizing current American politics. How does this moment compare with the past? Judy Woodruff sits down with the University of New Hampshire’s Ellen Fitzpatrick, presidential historian Michael Beschloss and Carolyn Lukensmeyer of the National Institute for Civil Discourse to discuss.

02/06/2020

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