314: People Making History: The Power and Perils of Telling History Through Individual Stories

314: People Making History: The Power and Perils of Telling History Through Individual Stories

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We turn to history to make sense of the present…but how do you make sense of history? For many of us, it’s through stories — individual tales of individual people. So on this episode of BackStory, Joanne, Ed and Brian present and discuss a particular person from their time period, someone who they think sheds much-needed light on our current moment.