GLC Director David Blight Appears on BBC’s “Civil War historians take on Trump” Segment

From the BBC: President Trump has caused controversy with a revisionist riff on Civil War history, telling journalist Salena Zito in an interview that Andrew Jackson could have prevented the war if he’d been president a little later, and that Jackson was “really angry” as he watched it unfold.

Jackson, a slave-owner and strongman who took office in 1829, died 16 years before the war began.

We asked three prominent Civil War historians - David Blight, from Yale; Judith Geisberg, from Villanova University; and Jim Grossman, from the American Historical Association - to parse Trump’s comments, line by line. 

Read the full conversation here: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39723586